Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 721181a6ca2a687f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.6 KB Created: 2020-08-27 18:22:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d36ed4cf5092ea18c03243af104e5bbe SHA-1: 12ea5810833eec2e55a10b1c03ad41f6717c8bf1 SHA-256: 721181a6ca2a687f81f0427da181b6ea717904e098880071d7b5c6e59ec7ecb6
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 external PDF files, suggesting a link farm or SEO abuse tactic. One of the primary links, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=mechanical+vibrations+rao+6th+editio', is flagged as a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body is heavily obfuscated and contains what appears to be the malicious redirector URL and several benign-looking Shopify links, likely to lend legitimacy.

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=mechanical+vibrations+rao+6th+editio
    • http://vuvat.thedetailors.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739591/zexufariledet.pdf
    • http://files.hurstgreenshires.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163914/f8bf1f6.pdf
    • http://wudor.jewsforyeshua.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452841/4534708.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4536/2581/files/wokimu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0608/9640/files/cox_remote_not_working.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8679/0304/files/19047694347.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4953/3088/files/10651944012.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1510/0826/files/barron_s_sat_math_2_11th_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1959/2102/files/11984275362.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6749/7880/files/baby_doll_house_adventure_game.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4848/4507/files/67570615069.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5030/2616/files/rizamajurudeji.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6819/3952/files/2180087208.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_off0000666a.bin
5474c327a6d4de52fc9422688676b67b074a853a9f0c0cf03a24fd3a3862c57c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x666A 5388 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000078a9.bin
e41f213063afe04c1d6727ee966f381a1f5ca666999145de117f0b143e42085c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78A9 10816 bytes