Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7db6849624a5985c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.4 KB Created: 2020-08-02 23:52:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ccebf5b8ee9c7aef839149ef57db31cb SHA-1: 01d3719ade276a40b7da200c90ebee245d5b3dbd SHA-256: 7db6849624a5985c9d4102ee08382b1d903129199f1c8c45628c64d0c7eaf24e
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector URL (ttraff.com). The document body, though partially corrupted, includes text related to 'cpt 2017 professional edition pdf' and the redirector URL itself, suggesting a lure. The presence of numerous Shopify links, while some are benign, indicates a link farm strategy. The ML classifier strongly flags 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.com/pify?keyword=cpt+2017+professional+edition+pdf
    • http://files.eastsidecoc.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164452/lozav.pdf
    • http://files.tombuckland.net/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969965/zumitotita.pdf
    • http://files.amazonindoorplayground.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739926/3925375.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0962/2687/files/google_sheets_duplicate_row.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8180/1629/files/location_of_hosts_file_windows_7.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9356/5342/files/jesse_mccartney_leavin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6211/6008/files/24628563526.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0009/4112/files/tabopajixiselomeworax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5679/0678/files/gekisidokerixipidegaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4826/4089/files/29856176665.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0461/5066/files/pojovekeguribawufiz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6428/7651/files/jozikejarepoge.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2529/9606/files/5486749350.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2512/9894/files/sinobudu.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_off0000636f.bin
4ebaef468374f561d2b41213f8b2160aa1eaeb68c37a5a113cb6ab45eb82f261
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x636F 5348 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000075b2.bin
edecb39a40a99485181d3ad928bd26a49c9e5cc954d1fd74c811534d7201c953
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75B2 10480 bytes