Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6bb1609f89673979…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.6 KB Created: 2020-08-14 23:15:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5d5b8f716c8fe4e025ad8aba8c953e35 SHA-1: 9e473632dcc0c3330608e9c29d693ae5ea77204c SHA-256: 6bb1609f8967397919c6b676497895c0b9c733f33b48750c9b4bc1269cda9450
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.com/wb?keyword=tiger%20jt-12b%20digital%20tuner%20manual', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting an attempt to disguise malicious content as a legitimate manual. The presence of numerous other links, many pointing to Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute the malicious PDF.

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/wb?keyword=tiger%20jt-12b%20digital%20tuner%20manual
    • http://files.oldseagrovehomes.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695329/2d7ae6d8d8d5e.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7360/9636/files/halloween_math_worksheets_for_elementary_students.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7162/6659/files/76986836990.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/2249/5389/files/collins_easy_learning_german_grammar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5947/6630/files/pesoka.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7453/6103/files/systems_understanding_aid_solutions.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8022/9791/files/what_is_skewness_and_kurtosis_in_statistics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5090/7286/files/23730329132.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5348/2135/files/english_russian_dictionary_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6660/4182/files/impatiens_balsamina.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8549/6482/files/molomifemejunewuge.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5742/2229/files/3559183841.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_off00006527.bin
051a6691662a9019156d4d688a2096721dd93f91bb6b3194b4c08d80cc01a3db
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6527 5348 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000774a.bin
048b21a80d5d4feaab8665bb4d5ed81c96632c2a2832492b4737189b60ad4da8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x774A 10128 bytes