Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6f4857f641a2a584…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.0 KB Created: 2020-08-25 20:11:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a55d70e6160e84ddab8999f73544c11b SHA-1: c35a93c852bea716522ea4bf4e6dfb9125025736 SHA-256: 6f4857f641a2a584845d9e6e4a10b3b8e38c65b924f5f0cb9174e97be271bfcd
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, a technique often used in SEO link farms to manipulate search engine rankings or to distribute malicious content. One of the embedded URLs, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=tchaikovsky+june+sheet+music', is flagged as a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links suggest an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content, likely as part of a phishing or malware distribution campaign.

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/pify?keyword=tchaikovsky+june+sheet+music
    • http://files.michellemorrisonwrites.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636903/fizuto_woponexopebugur.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1661/8145/files/bagimo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2267/8173/files/xumimaramizesakezev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5564/3813/files/26034853504.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6624/4766/files/gowatadebajosefa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1841/2451/files/the_coincidence_of_callie_and_kayden.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6878/3782/files/7047107561.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9295/9642/files/segowopalixakivox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3337/0522/files/77413107973.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4976/3494/files/91778423682.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_off00004440.bin
0df97cb0bc90ab55419f8a9154d3bbe1e01d2dab28c8641a73722bd828d1525a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4440 5160 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000055b6.bin
7d596201a645c6d8716118de3fd9181d3f3caca3b452a82ea57eb6555815936d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x55B6 9920 bytes