Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a96812abf9ba5fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.5 KB Created: 2020-08-14 20:42:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: bc7b3310bef6e3521c856ec6c1f58a19 SHA-1: 31af3a01855de9a05c61b71a73ecf44da7eb0563 SHA-256: 6a96812abf9ba5fba4f2b059335727ad5391d256272187c8acff331c32a22d62
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF contains embedded links, one of which, https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=food+evaluation+sheet+ks2, is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting a lure related to a "Food evaluation sheet ks2". The presence of numerous external PDF links, many pointing to Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=food+evaluation+sheet+ks2
    • http://files.lpr3in1.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606815/gujadadotojige_todid_tonavunixedok_lofadij.pdf
    • http://numamubu.nzwfd.co.nz/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682883/bejogesowuka-daradibowiv-nokomibin-jamaboraw.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9728/3992/files/mediterranean_diet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9515/5105/files/foratuxipoz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7006/2754/files/50935764776.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/wefudebavisizaku.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/99913566500.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0107/7142/files/35108446713.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4511/7342/files/functional_analysis_stein_shakarchi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7153/6285/files/fajagejinupevutugew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3683/3952/files/arboles_bonsai_cuidados.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFL

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007280.bin
fecc86a06706a19063e3f02b6b050a20222a0db2eed9c305759abe1378904d64
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7280 5028 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000083a2.bin
170a0e4e2e548081ca26341b314b939e2e7072f0491644cf6c629a67155351dd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x83A2 14808 bytes