Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6cf35e61bbea4df1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.2 KB Created: 2020-08-22 06:21:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4be1506c19d077b9c06bf24d27aa50b6 SHA-1: 89a4689a5a0307787001d7236b28be28fed5b007 SHA-256: 6cf35e61bbea4df18144c629da54bdc3b72af06dc867b03f2b8106610208db63
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, identified as a critical heuristic finding. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL "https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=ganga+kaveri+seeds+daily+report", suggesting a lure to external content. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many pointing to Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy, likely to obscure the malicious redirector.

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=ganga+kaveri+seeds+daily+report
    • http://files.audtt.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438282/desapagobebonidesu.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/4629/7751/files/best_platform_games_android_2018.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2707/8042/files/6435683011.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1165/3277/files/40819053301.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8052/3678/files/list_of_adjectives_and_their_opposites.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5332/5224/files/berliner_platz_vk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8875/4328/files/tiwubonefima.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2670/1723/files/constitution_and_by_laws_of_ssg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1609/3849/files/safobidekepuwisidabebe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3027/3448/files/40197111097.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3046/3135/files/nizujujewo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2086/0067/files/ramalofosoxog.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_off00004665.bin
e30e4204e4ef4645303ad329326765ff5ce9f2f9f6a8c34cce93941fa52c233f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4665 5384 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000058d8.bin
781b3f625089568164e8fa5e3891c53fc12620395a08f1f5d484c8dfbc34ca5c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x58D8 10412 bytes