Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 73906eaf020bb377…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.5 KB Created: 2020-08-10 03:17:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7d6981ffe5f1c22280a5e5c7ef3aefb0 SHA-1: feb9d9056da12c6c44e540390e5b21dde0f7084d SHA-256: 73906eaf020bb37741f8a2caf505f5b8e789f2bbb337f101963f05efb07cf0e7
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 Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=cambridge+academic+english+book+pdf'. This indicates the document is designed to redirect users to malicious sites under the guise of providing academic resources.

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=cambridge+academic+english+book+pdf
    • http://files.aponysparadiseequinerescue.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438234/falul-lelonozunesa-sepulen.pdf
    • http://vulewi.pauldingcountyogs.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682646/tatan-xotasasulokep-sonatipulaseg-dalupaj.pdf
    • http://bosuw.danielleabrams.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814017/zutozufazomejiwez.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3803/1518/files/jogovomorizixujajipudite.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7628/7648/files/32071014994.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5083/5878/files/cestodos_morfologia.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4768/2201/files/3851628229.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4225/8587/files/11604316785.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9213/0458/files/74307302423.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6924/3549/files/miwabenudevafefip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1055/4016/files/dudix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1461/8262/files/jikafipisajerurukazej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6535/2102/files/vertical_farming_philippines.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0844/0995/files/werajurab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5859/2921/files/15964041190.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_off000046bc.bin
6c2a718d8c692628a45e540c1afd7ff6cc085afa40eea06692f4857b52279068
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x46BC 5680 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000059d4.bin
517237635349b2ad778bb1310154ce69f8beaf27d935b5277a9aa3f7f0eeeedf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x59D4 9264 bytes