Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 73cd4d63f0136556…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.7 KB Created: 2020-09-10 19:59:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ec466928cc6b0239e0b290dc9bb82689 SHA-1: cf6f2a3cfdeb95e8baf3f32ec738c4edf5291f75 SHA-256: 73cd4d63f0136556e54f1179db6ce844e18e428192c3b75a50644b3c3064057e
192 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to disposable domains, indicating a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious sites. The heuristic 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' specifically flags a URL that appears to be a redirector. The document body also contains the URL 'https://ttraff.club/pify?keyword=excel+sheet+apply+template', suggesting a lure to download or interact with malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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.club/pify?keyword=excel+sheet+apply+template
    • http://lonunawa.sincerelymickie.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856190/2255982.pdf
    • http://files.carolkratochwill.net/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071041/2648036.pdf
    • http://files.c3industriesllc.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381919/e1716c61f4.pdf
    • http://fezezogim.cambridgesupervisiontraining.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681337/divef.pdf
    • http://nikeki.androscogginriverwalk.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483167/d8c9cae0f195a.pdf
    • http://files.rosiewaterscounselling.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775220/eb1fb2e.pdf
    • http://kapedi.saintpetersriceville.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969339/xuwurusazir_lonezowafumixev.pdf
    • http://fezim.alexandraforsythermt.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378985/vanejadidopaf.pdf
    • http://files.parishofribbleton.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681464/104592.pdf
    • http://files.kerrieannespicer.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741181/9132661.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/455f95_c56db8f915404c7382618509f9116e57.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ceb2e8_bca0c6e5e3104924a2356cf36838dcd0.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1061/2644/files/34803534628.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/9377/0654/files/container_home_plans.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5765/0584/files/bdo_harpooning_guide.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006c79.bin
f21a0f5843ff513121f4f2deb85595e189598d9976e54f22be3b4953ba6395ae
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C79 4728 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007c98.bin
90178c3f6fc62801fcd92dd7c9231a835f9e425556ebdc6bf17bfebdc25355e3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C98 10332 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009fd2.bin
0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9FD2 4324 bytes