Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e78f62ce1ae6346…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.8 KB Created: 2020-08-16 18:28:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 829368291ddab0a78f7a53cf9e167f7c SHA-1: 5c79b57e7d6ed70d07053483ce875d37887b1d05 SHA-256: 6e78f62ce1ae6346bf0d712ff8b7804f14542256a9e3de31b8ae15ea2bcab0cf
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 of which point to a redirector service (ttraff.com) that is known to host malicious content. The document body, though partially corrupted, suggests a lure related to sorting spreadsheets, which is a common tactic for phishing or scam operations. The presence of numerous external links, including those to Shopify, indicates an attempt to create a link farm or distribute malicious content through various channels.

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=sort+excel+spreadsheet+by+alphabetical+order
    • http://gedemisul.townofbradfordwi.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873851/nerekusivajexa.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3641/6936/files/ir_2135ti_max.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6073/9752/files/5828439519.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0632/8995/files/94499227562.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9911/9013/files/51261711971.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/pepefawabibuf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6836/6746/files/damabi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1044/8795/files/ginujakim.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0789/3919/files/33533420264.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/39738284996.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1734/6965/files/57540534576.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_off000064bf.bin
19d71be8ff8f1cdcdd59cbe7274bd51ab266c2bb58724b5b3d18169f980d984a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64BF 5572 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000077ae.bin
9364d028cff0980a7a59399c0d4e947a5519b1389cf2fd597f4ed3a6d3c1da4b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77AE 10200 bytes