Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e14c70d22871034…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.2 KB Created: 2020-08-06 15:34:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4323040c02974ec645d19fc25aa84819 SHA-1: 7d7c3f8bff2047f39511f613f5877838295089a9 SHA-256: 6e14c70d22871034dd9d0cdd5f24ab9c9da1bd4bdc826ebedca11eccb6c4d872
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains numerous links, including one to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though obfuscated, includes text related to a PDF download, suggesting a lure. The presence of many external links, including to Shopify, indicates an attempt to create a link farm for SEO poisoning or to host malicious content.

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=public+finance+book+by+r+k+lekhi+pdf+download
    • http://files.vardismarinakis.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776150/136287.pdf
    • http://files.m.alissweettreats.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406473/9859126.pdf
    • http://files.weskimo.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303374/xomijed.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6309/1112/files/tadikupudividiwid.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6609/6806/files/94048774332.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5253/0845/files/18248966148.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/80170273674.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9508/1625/files/69689799450.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2144/2965/files/tixasodozeverifi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2318/7614/files/28222767310.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0647/3886/files/osrs_beginner_quests.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7300/9819/files/vuvokitutiwuje.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2469/4942/files/xejukan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1927/0306/files/bamilebetoxurunelojezejeb.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_off0000431e.bin
a1ff4f6893fb7d15944b91f3b8c778448ee655c97e73375b8031d48baf61234e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x431E 5464 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000055c0.bin
873eba724d82c50ccd1a9fb9d5565c871edd7f6477fa9573cafa8fc1055945a0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x55C0 8888 bytes