Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6d0dc3cc577a3d39…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.6 KB Created: 2020-08-17 01:18:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9b0ce3733cc60c7b4da80c9d95309411 SHA-1: 509dfd0674c9e664293a17fb22daa4d134a6c697 SHA-256: 6d0dc3cc577a3d39ffecbbbb8559a4d604d7350a082afe38da3c8a858f5c1f29
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating it's a malicious redirector. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=corridors+of+time+sheet+music, which likely serves as a gateway to distribute further malicious content. The presence of numerous Shopify-hosted PDF links suggests an attempt to create a link farm or distribute content through seemingly legitimate platforms.

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=corridors+of+time+sheet+music
    • http://files.bodyworkharmonics.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437362/84b4a89d4fa97d.pdf
    • http://files.autumnlala.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740189/tuxosex.pdf
    • http://files.sanfrancisco-carpenter.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969469/6232811.pdf
    • http://files.middistribution.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740270/5806965.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5743/9129/files/93227631243.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2763/5096/files/72452707918.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4922/2298/files/68386426061.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/55864873889.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7727/9652/files/20664197089.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8145/8069/files/golpe_de_estado_definicion.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9925/1093/files/88309931402.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3273/7942/files/45027661928.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0201/9487/files/cmake_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7637/8014/files/riravilijamelaviwefoju.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_off00004e27.bin
6af25446ddb041644bd55ee3793f90533366fa9a40419f212c247916431081bf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4E27 4924 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005ec2.bin
3005a4584b8f20faa34396fd2c63533d8368bab07286bb48972d607e98e9c7c2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5EC2 14324 bytes