Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7c3935e48b1d4ff6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.9 KB Created: 2020-08-19 22:48:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c202a38867d1d3cd192e9b192e74c180 SHA-1: 9bf66a2ed3da2d4dc0cf51edff3fac5d4078f4eb SHA-256: 7c3935e48b1d4ff63addb87d53f1444555d6350831c336f2f4c18b5cf0519496
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=everlasting+summer+guide+mine', which is flagged as a malicious redirector. The presence of many external PDF links, some pointing to benign Shopify domains and others to unknown domains, suggests a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to distribute malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be social engineering via deceptive links.

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=everlasting+summer+guide+mine
    • http://beluwot.fingerpressart.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969521/18e3ce4b4d8654f.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4040/6684/files/defining_relative_clauses_exercises_with_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5657/9228/files/57648623885.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9691/4586/files/aptis_sample_exam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7052/1495/files/95105255255.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5193/4108/files/80928167220.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9073/8328/files/books_download_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9232/0161/files/pedimejimirepixax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0521/3847/files/sabijewalodoninefuve.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4458/6140/files/accessibility_checker.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8652/8155/files/34815336286.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2846/3271/files/car_repair_business_plan_template.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6857/1294/files/29079302760.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_off00006f5a.bin
54e25e5c7fe8fc83a6462d6f640117a82c07a67067627926f91a48edb4a6f7c7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F5A 5164 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000080d3.bin
86ceeca7a6f7c8400370afd9e79253a59abeac8976c8db78390db54c44ff8095
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x80D3 9904 bytes