Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 758e6305b685847c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.8 KB Created: 2020-08-17 18:28:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: cf76950065068f01f9c9f6b43849a61c SHA-1: a263207a0f934ab4bca0899ccbb30f17fbf922cc SHA-256: 758e6305b685847c10743f0dd8121f7b60a49e49e889b756552a64408ec052fe
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=ascent+day+1+sheet+music+pdf'. It also exhibits characteristics of a PDF SEO link farm, with numerous embedded links, many of which are to benign Shopify URLs but at least one points to a potentially malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary attack vector appears to be tricking users into clicking a malicious link disguised as a document.

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.ru/pify?keyword=ascent+day+1+sheet+music+pdf
    • http://files.endoftenancyservice.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740586/jobozimamifobof.pdf
    • http://gilira.lostsalon.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384600/sunaf-sevixigimerodim-riper.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8784/5790/files/fomijexadavowi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1537/0912/files/gekoludesuvapo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2256/5032/files/passive_verbs_exercises.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/2263/6440/files/designs_and_construction_detail_of_mono_pitch_roofs.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9105/1161/files/1640714619.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4015/1464/files/great_depression_causes_and_effects.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6186/2810/files/96551198871.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7910/6724/files/94422577433.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8068/6495/files/chinua_achebe_short_stories.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7133/2767/files/dakawusege.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7417/4622/files/37984892343.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8544/6824/files/moredibaxi.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_off00004b60.bin
33449cb0d05665000f91845523c6438dacd05e16a1068c34513ae201260b9632
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4B60 5412 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005daa.bin
e4791c996a3befd6c7c7709cbbfceb1c1f772c4a6c2e8fd2d8be7c3f316d51e3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5DAA 9676 bytes