Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 77da5004dcb5cca5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.5 KB Created: 2020-08-30 17:38:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e31712b38a6372eb0dd75fad5146b626 SHA-1: 6bbc5329b861cddf75e8f9d7b1485046faed3a8c SHA-256: 77da5004dcb5cca56628dd4a058aa4077f5f834ffb3d366da145cd175567be77
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, one of which, 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=hamilton+beach+stay+or+go+crock+pot+instructions', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and appears to be a lure related to 'Hamilton beach stay or go crock pot instructions'. The presence of numerous other links to Shopify-hosted PDFs suggests a link farm tactic, likely to improve search engine ranking for malicious content or to distribute the malicious redirector. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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/wix?keyword=hamilton+beach+stay+or+go+crock+pot+instructions
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0020/8294/files/doxomepeboxanoxa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5910/9279/files/72816884184.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2116/3941/files/payroll_and_accounting_applications.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0415/8364/files/english_alphabet_writing_worksheet.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5b9a87_f29a5be6367448af83c3a537f51963c1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_03390ac34df9441d9a302a3a14ef0cba.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/83f04e_7972331ea6254eadb8f93cd7f612a0c4.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2099/9064/files/meditexuwedod.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2844/6358/files/bipagewejowerimofesipe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5115/5618/files/69294728583.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_off000055b5.bin
399e73e2edd5b5284d7a8bf008fda2a98bcf7fc099034056f6f7d98a40449b8d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x55B5 5616 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000068a0.bin
51f322d9b69865ff35cf40c3bd79a6cfc5e64f93db76e2fac8c03a2cad583ea4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x68A0 11220 bytes