Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c23b1a792d6b86d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.2 KB Created: 2020-08-12 04:52:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ada9472b18d487cf60d1338073d561e6 SHA-1: 8229355ce5ccbcd0b32e854227b50553890c2d8e SHA-256: 6c23b1a792d6b86d6ccb109ba6363148c0924068d1dfd11310d7e3940a6c46cc
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that point to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically `https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=classroom+english+vocabulary+pdf`. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting an attempt to disguise its malicious nature. The presence of numerous external links, many pointing to Shopify domains, indicates a link farm strategy, likely to improve search engine ranking for malicious content or to obscure the true destination.

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.ru/pify?keyword=classroom+english+vocabulary+pdf
    • http://toxavi.mintzathletics.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814930/a3af5b7a5af4cfb.pdf
    • http://files.freedom-conspiracy.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740297/notoxegep.pdf
    • http://files.preciousprairieplants.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775987/fabavetosakufex.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0668/7389/files/44668851885.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/pelezegagujagemubejapo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7018/5879/files/baptism_certificate_template_fillable.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8570/8953/files/carbohidratos_disacaridos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7930/2296/files/68081382393.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3056/9382/files/47178486745.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7336/2325/files/22428144665.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8706/9348/files/lerajuzav.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9154/9590/files/organic_compound_chemistry.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8393/2582/files/45860295701.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_off00007e63.bin
4c3cdce86549954c4d9110a1d4352099deb08ca2ffff8a912a58a4f964c73df8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E63 5776 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000091e3.bin
31e85c7ae7e9d762612988da1c0d1d42bb57a2e7a476fe94014047d31875c646
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x91E3 9956 bytes