Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7166f14a85f13589…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.0 KB Created: 2020-08-11 21:23:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4cb27eb8c9586c225726188057d613ad SHA-1: b33c5c708af02994d10473ffbf3f6cddd672be72 SHA-256: 7166f14a85f13589f5eccaa2ca371e011693fb55a7320b9084f75e7eb1ad0510
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links and text that mimic a utility for converting files, specifically mentioning 'convert pdf to word online using nitro'. One of the primary links, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=convert+pdf+to+word+online+using+nitro', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document also features a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation or traffic redirection. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of malicious redirector links and the lure text strongly indicate a phishing or scam attempt.

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=convert+pdf+to+word+online+using+nitro
    • http://files.voltaglass.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303083/vipawoto_mogetoruf_lulopimig_pikazidon.pdf
    • http://wagapew.catmintcottagestreetcatrescue.com.au/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303382/4431803.pdf
    • http://files.vicentedelrio.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383283/segakup.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6726/8517/files/batopa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4082/3706/files/bwv_1006_guitar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5167/7856/files/nasibatiwu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7310/1214/files/45624339728.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2148/1622/files/zapogilegisej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3041/2450/files/weteke.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9165/6864/files/wimubapimo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6061/6599/files/15150006707.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9133/6099/files/13106906166.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_off00004728.bin
8a4f5e4d2091a7c1b617bc91a0753f2492013e9af7a964c4f4e0239655333ec7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4728 5056 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005887.bin
a776a69ea805ee418274ceb19e63b39d30c6ae591a15062e5bc608d52eedc0ae
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5887 10232 bytes