Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 78f6457bbea677ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.8 KB Created: 2020-08-12 09:52:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a4b0b6661c1c010e249586300ec3ebec SHA-1: d4bd14f85450c3e191d576283a2c20a513e7a0d0 SHA-256: 78f6457bbea677efdd46df2681697b55c69e7b8bf0213ab1e95565ac81d839ce
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, disguised as a tool for inserting digital signatures. The document also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to PDF files, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious content. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness.

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=inserir+assinatura+digital+pdf
    • http://files.well-estar.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637034/91a0067.pdf
    • http://files.theteenspire.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775830/14f1c97e48b72a9.pdf
    • http://feres.badassgirlworld.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606349/jidomeda_weguwovodolijiz.pdf
    • http://files.faithbaptistchurchministries.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813834/fexetobobokida_rokiri_wakefibovu.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8529/1937/files/pitexoje.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8954/2809/files/povuwanuzik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6912/9372/files/18828071028.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0862/9663/files/63265871458.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6084/7004/files/abstract_reasoning_test_test_2.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9461/3924/files/capelania_empresarial.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7057/1174/files/18230674656.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9716/9824/files/55914674994.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/6733015585.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6750/6849/files/convert_to_autocad_file_online.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8465/1423/files/dapel.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_off00006abc.bin
0d54fe45ddf651d90f012401f1919b068fd9146797c0524e089cd515022e5e35
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6ABC 5148 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007c48.bin
9b5e93a759a255a449d717ed628063c2ec6345794edff912682fdebc7ed94c12
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C48 10028 bytes