Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ba147395ae8ee23…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.1 KB Created: 2020-08-18 14:46:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 408ea526576c584064c43e4fde97fa41 SHA-1: 9e9c697d572712a2213adecdd0e7a177cb1106ad SHA-256: 6ba147395ae8ee230c15d850f028d8acb92aeff922fdd3f4105507c450250f73
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link that redirects to a malicious URL, identified by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. Additionally, the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a large number of external links, many of which are benign but serve to obscure the malicious one. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The embedded URL in the document body, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=cheat+sheet+for+statistics+final', is the primary indicator of malicious intent, likely leading to a phishing or malware download site.

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=cheat+sheet+for+statistics+final
    • http://files.planetaindigena.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380343/1532088.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0453/8272/9896/files/tokyo_jr_subway_map.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8096/5534/files/lafazufimop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7080/7461/files/dewey_decimal_system_worksheets_exercises.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8282/5371/files/actinobacillus_suis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0760/5923/files/chip_on_shoulder_meaning.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4996/5985/files/21409939415.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7049/6672/files/29683369665.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5049/2316/files/danoluxi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4189/7110/files/rokumavidi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7318/3637/files/92795674996.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_off0000634d.bin
f502735edfd46f19adffac39c13014140134b6d1d426484342c4f5105a7f24c6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x634D 4876 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000073d6.bin
bfc9e4a102fb1d0fe021ae4afdb47c63eceeee6b762f03cd9ca5308666126d9e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73D6 10444 bytes