Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 769d4834003af403…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.5 KB Created: 2020-08-14 22:46:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f7f21e17d5d89b625f8cd13017e5c424 SHA-1: 8d3152b2af42a0a830e7dc9b2ce63de976d4d6b4 SHA-256: 769d4834003af403097943c6ef78672faaa6ba016a526527547b48d1c9305b5d
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one critical heuristic identifying a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=phenol+chloroform+rna+extraction+principle'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting it is the primary lure. The presence of many links to Shopify-hosted PDFs, while individually benign, contributes to a link farm pattern, likely to improve search engine ranking for the malicious lure. No scripts were extracted, but the overall pattern indicates a phishing or scam attempt.

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=phenol+chloroform+rna+extraction+principle
    • http://pufub.goucherstudentartshowcase.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070036/b0a4939cfe.pdf
    • http://files.doylestownbotox.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712358/xikofuzudevot.pdf
    • http://files.spectraltech.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437711/vukipovosokeke.pdf
    • http://kidogi.fiongunn.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814172/f7325fb9549d885.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0542/5310/files/11576519431.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8482/5247/files/95453551594.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8260/4963/files/95563677483.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1370/9722/files/kidijigipudotepazofale.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5470/3526/files/65229233650.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/0878/9413/files/simple_present_affirmative_negative_interrogative_exercises.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4942/6839/files/sixth_sense_technology_abstract.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2423/7212/files/xafumowef.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_off000061ce.bin
b6992d074c3be4663ba42c6cfe0b2db129c9b0be721ab17887abe78fada99676
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61CE 5144 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007321.bin
d7f0d65e1b63930f6ffa7aa1265feb11f47d24ab4d08f5ef6f603750131e6694
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7321 10084 bytes