Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 706d8607c733420d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.7 KB Created: 2020-08-15 12:46:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: bac56363d3057b0b5cc35abb73fc1865 SHA-1: a7d227d8efbbb3b3a955d4dbf4e33d3a4386dfa3 SHA-256: 706d8607c733420db17183c60e53b441d96bbedbbafe5277a66c5d8aa136c91d
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, specifically identified by the URL https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=nigerian+christian+songs+mix. The presence of numerous links to PDFs hosted on Shopify, some of which are confirmed benign, suggests an attempt to camouflage malicious links within a larger, seemingly legitimate set of resources. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, supporting the assessment of a malicious redirector.

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=nigerian+christian+songs+mix
    • http://files.narayanahotelandresidences.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380895/wuladaribix.pdf
    • http://files.crestviewcofc.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163976/2268022.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0453/2862/9915/files/neolithic_revolution_essay.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1829/6216/files/ams_arbeitsbescheinigung.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0513/2445/files/3392138540.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1896/0545/files/zoboresumasabiw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0778/6651/files/surekekabadogulaxuj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1731/2152/files/totobiwu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6688/4250/files/vimezuxuterigufapogoduji.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6834/8830/files/murugevadenejenilefobevil.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
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/License

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004ebd.bin
6348cd9324b90b954ef0833c6f4c2102ff54af27ddd33cff4a69b4b6b9d752f7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4EBD 5220 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006055.bin
83baaa480b80bac48ecad6738ae4e493ca9c5da4283cafada93537f1d5efdff7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6055 10044 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000082e8.bin
9e8409b995ac2b0bb76eb3eb8dd1c90fa55d1c1c8a40bb5daa08ca4080948d13
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x82E8 18776 bytes