Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 718dfabc6c1bac65…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.3 KB Created: 2020-08-03 08:03:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0c5edc77ad32aeb490d640156245bc42 SHA-1: e7848296f9e4478baac1e9f6f279a8e81b37f1dc SHA-256: 718dfabc6c1bac65510dff3e0ed23e77f0acde93c83c2e2a20777219310fc5ca
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=supreme+builds+wizard+error'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and text suggesting a fake error message ('Supreme builds wizard error'). The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to distribute malicious content.

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=supreme+builds+wizard+error
    • http://files.musingaboutwriting.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303351/kuxitisojasevo-xobuvuto-tixup.pdf
    • http://files.bakersfieldbirthnetwork.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437848/9633bc21960f1b.pdf
    • http://files.soulbloom.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776393/3468513.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0978/4482/files/venasonuzetuxokin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1974/7996/files/sujaxukokifalexu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/38746106010.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0707/4723/files/gowox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8470/7992/files/toweta.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8695/4140/files/sivepa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0610/7552/files/2457050604.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6074/7688/files/minecraft_dirt_background.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6419/7273/files/30912398532.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_off000078bc.bin
84d8d206f95cf49a9d9040929dc205798fd53e7bd10d14cbc86751e010e1ca4b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78BC 5492 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008b5b.bin
450b98cbf96924a441e236e54ecd8735c9968c28c527c04e33b78b640434a566
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B5B 10772 bytes