Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e761a8824a17a4c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.1 KB Created: 2020-08-21 00:43:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 602704a63dcaabcc3d004d748e1143da SHA-1: 2d73d0c454cc71d14ee67413745e56b3f6e593f3 SHA-256: 7e761a8824a17a4cf8d72e32d5e14d9b4363e95d4cbb5822dc58b6a7e5966582
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation or to obscure malicious redirects. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at `https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=architecture+english+vocabulary+pdf`. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated and contains what appears to be a reference to the malicious URL.

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=architecture+english+vocabulary+pdf
    • http://files.victortoh.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873715/4093644.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2290/7554/files/borrow_synonym_formal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3074/8072/files/72143936877.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/libidurekatomanazavevufi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8073/6165/files/neural_networks_and_deep_learning_aggarwal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5921/4496/files/63893634172.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6237/7113/files/bafusabiwazunigutizolof.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8343/2096/files/13404129067.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5339/0743/files/pavowujavonulaxe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2172/8933/files/sezoluguwus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0465/6797/files/zaketidanosewujujerakiti.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1723/8685/files/lipifu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5583/1445/files/tadujarananujoretikavoro.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9892/2392/files/metafisica_aristoteles_libro_7.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_off000099f5.bin
ec8484c7b97eca0fb889f143dc98c27eefacf9d97a82b5d78daba7f1484f4376
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x99F5 5708 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ad66.bin
20a027c2853df79fe530a6b0f1719778662f0fb18c7916f27d1ea11bfb8b5550
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAD66 9980 bytes