Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6b39e9e6a6cb3da1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.3 KB Created: 2020-08-15 06:18:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ad7b0a94a57e3298918787772b9d393b SHA-1: 97549b9911e5b51f9d0c3d5a4ff6740de29587d7 SHA-256: 6b39e9e6a6cb3da189dcefa339fcc02a032a181d132cc3460be0a34c9ea0d1d4
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF document was flagged by multiple heuristics as malicious, specifically for containing links to known malicious redirector infrastructure and a large number of external PDF links. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=upvc+shiplap+cladding+sheets, which likely serves as a gateway to further malicious content. The document's structure suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious links under the guise of legitimate-looking documents.

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.com/pify?keyword=upvc+shiplap+cladding+sheets
    • http://files.ecabalquinto.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739470/6434253.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6926/8383/files/bidisokozumojiwate.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5667/6507/files/99015104389.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/vuketunaxu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2170/5124/files/morty_big_brother.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2052/5476/files/88408508657.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7029/9048/files/4026308628.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9586/8067/files/9558822688.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9812/0094/files/xixurob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5249/8070/files/actionscript_3_game_programming_university.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7451/9201/files/pirolapeb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5466/0758/files/35559909230.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_off00005f8e.bin
6460b7b9b6e86c4ef117fc40a2acec854e6eab4e62946ea9fb76e25f4dea6479
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F8E 5288 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000718b.bin
302e79d501aec4cfbe69da36076cb40e141080bab4073f7738c5c35588b0dd2b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x718B 10280 bytes