Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6c29b92ab6580af6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.6 KB Created: 2020-08-21 14:27:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0072840f07b3ffbb70691d40a713b29c SHA-1: 0c82ff2bf1c02e55403fae775fc62fc20d5105dd SHA-256: 6c29b92ab6580af68a38d7de1f59238b60a13bbfbb6d1c7a62ed1d9067a3d951
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to external PDF files, which is indicative of a link farm. One prominent URL, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=excel+sum+function+across+multiple+sheets', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to Excel functions and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to disguise malicious redirection. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=excel+sum+function+across+multiple+sheets
    • http://jiweke.coda-pdx.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738568/20b95d53bb2fd.pdf
    • http://files.creativityandperformance.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776594/jopake.pdf
    • http://kixapojo.lyonsvet.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380213/5272690.pdf
    • http://gamofejal.waialaekahalachapel.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775403/7b34b.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7875/4199/files/gegetek.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0664/7717/files/john_deere_425_parts.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3897/3857/files/career_wise_bursary_application_form_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8251/3570/files/dianadrol_side_effects.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4468/4454/files/canon_eos_60d_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8214/5182/files/50463885474.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2630/0575/files/58874185990.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1830/5179/files/28357694052.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9101/7374/files/lunesu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5317/0339/files/encyclopedia_of_the_human_brain.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_off00006184.bin
2be0bee7d501c64926014e3f454bc0caeffdd01eae2cd7ec27dadf2903ba3b83
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6184 5280 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000734e.bin
3440147e100325216591259d36f301e845c27be4a88a6aebe5f6701bdcc44596
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x734E 10104 bytes