Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6cebd5889297b600…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.6 KB Created: 2020-08-08 20:02:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 6330f27ee9be6318afb3035df7261f91 SHA-1: d03d10c4721a5c20c4455fabf6ad0fc4f42b63e7 SHA-256: 6cebd5889297b600c73e02fad7552bf230ebbfd729634da8f8fa07bb3b06830f
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many pointing to Shopify domains hosting PDF files, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malicious content. One of the primary links, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=business+english+pdf+free+download', is identified as a malicious redirector, indicating an attempt to lead users to harmful sites. 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.cc/pify?keyword=business+english+pdf+free+download
    • http://files.loesshillsalliance.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813616/bomojegokajexotejo.pdf
    • http://files.sacredhuman.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379118/muxusigi.pdf
    • http://files.findhigherpurpose.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070394/1319685.pdf
    • http://files.debcoopertextileart.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302759/wezizoximuk.pdf
    • http://files.oestore.shop/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775647/livaletip.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0699/9203/files/reliability_test_in_spss.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7850/8953/files/rajaradomebilijifaludub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4192/2982/files/30866705827.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6134/4406/files/85016072143.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5848/7703/files/nofewitowimeziserutoraf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/zodotuxufaliga.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3519/7602/files/91532776598.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8547/1656/files/tepiwe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6219/0499/files/assertiveness_skills.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4223/3755/files/aquiles_nazoa_poemas.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_off00007496.bin
f28e6b9aa4c40a556dcc3769cc006d1174e9cd17337a129fe6cea5c964c97ced
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7496 5444 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008725.bin
9461f09e4cce69aa0ddb1a67ee1367707a57ca91d36f0c9c0f99c214f684543e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8725 9964 bytes