Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f0c0e792bf2edaa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.8 KB Created: 2020-08-19 05:39:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 409591d4867f67da7eedae0e80cfbbae SHA-1: 6886ecec3ada1ba8f59e4ff8c7129ad513ba9d87 SHA-256: 6f0c0e792bf2edaae743c8f01f614bfe7d57731162f761f1c8bfd42178368834
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting PDF files, but one critical link redirects to 'ttraff.com', which is flagged as malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same search query as the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to SEO-optimized content that ultimately leads to malicious sites. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=giulio+caccini+ave+maria+sheet+music+free
    • http://files.spalderick.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437306/9491fc8a2f655f.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2166/3397/files/accuracy_and_precision_in_analytical_chemistry.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3444/2919/files/acronis_true_image_old_version_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/2190/5569/files/behavioral_theory_of_counseling.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8864/2197/files/damumusexizu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0631/2098/files/julagakiro.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0443/5096/3868/files/directors_monthly_report_template.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7399/3890/files/47371776509.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7445/2632/files/tidutu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0505/0021/files/durinofagaseto.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7169/2188/files/zexemowilabawaruledonomup.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8915/8554/files/77473402816.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000502a.bin
f1b028ee63bee7daa981867ca674c05647c05d88095a5efa3632c09709bfeac8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x502A 5096 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000614f.bin
6ccddb200250d5b00ed939670a31b49b8f1789e7768c43e2f29d6d6f8e3ecd54
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x614F 10180 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00008452.bin
ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8452 4324 bytes