Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 79f7cc7667916dc3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB Created: 2020-08-18 23:57:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a3da2468d10ae3cc8061675f1426fbcc SHA-1: 38337b37e4c8b9bb797a687355a62ec8721786ba SHA-256: 79f7cc7667916dc3c157e15eab4733330c8e871b782ab374997460b6d673dc55
162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a lure for 'Bitlocker password recovery software free' and embeds multiple links, one of which, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=bitlocker+password+recovery+software+free', points to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to distribute malicious content or SEO manipulation. While no scripts were directly extracted, the PDF structure and embedded links indicate a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=bitlocker+password+recovery+software+free
    • http://loliro.pizzatimewestbrook.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438759/gexukuwaxeru.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0423/9783/files/github_upload_file.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0627/9323/files/chisholm_v_georgia.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9166/5830/files/64642109294.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1832/8991/files/git_xcrun_error_invalid_active_developer_path.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9471/9131/files/17821641667.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7104/4770/files/43161062000.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3061/8011/files/34914341754.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9979/1265/files/jisod.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_off00005e58.bin
75ca244e45ba0257e385fc8ed9c5b059050751ca701eab7020b0bf83db7a1c63
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E58 5516 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007140.bin
c7db5ac83b29e21e5fc5bc32beed9b3bad8c2a02a751ef45e8fca7e2cdd0409e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7140 13764 bytes