Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e804578db6372ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.7 KB Created: 2020-08-31 12:15:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 8c352de38d9feacd123366e1e308a565 SHA-1: 6db7eece90f689f04db48886d9600305f465cfd1 SHA-256: 6e804578db6372efba2e586ff2983974bb277eeb6db9aa3d118bba611f7a5fab
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a redirector URL, `https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=financially+fearless+pdf`, which is flagged as malicious. Additionally, the document body contains a large number of links to other PDFs hosted on Shopify and static hosting sites, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. The presence of embedded URLs and the malicious redirector strongly indicate an attempt to lead the user to a harmful destination.

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/wix?keyword=financially+fearless+pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1011/3188/files/78280064017.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0459/1756/9173/files/piano_sheet_music_app_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1261/0457/files/2620030125.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_356df3f3bda94e95986ae01f14f53a80.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_237d3ab74ea845c88c79e92779e2444f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/38eac1_1b270c83ef1b41cb9a1df69d11d0ce6b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b6bf5b_9db6c1a298f048c993101e0bdb5c5cbd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_fb5060f414fa44a087299213ea30f6b9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f46427_384f03634c5846a9b3de55f563d9e4a8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_07e552feb9d84360aa93acbee2813060.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_24841f9d180540919a1375c8fd60701a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4f9d7878fc5d424aa2ad22b1841f14e4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/18122d_3802fe5da3ea41c7a19fe0353273c7e4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d9a87dbf2e664bdab103f1c35b27ef26.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/10a4aa_486ac14edf27436797efb566ecbbcaf6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0112edbed89145b9be46dabcb3dd0050.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e8373fc8801e47aeabcc6c0299ed8792.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_off00007106.bin
64daa2147da17f100e88a40bb4249cd5beea9fd7633fad0e382e3da554db0379
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7106 5204 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000082d2.bin
4ecb7998622fd1e83a347810e286e2c7f0b810b2a88b62fcf109a843b3e409d7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x82D2 10308 bytes