Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7f4bb559f2052e77…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.2 KB Created: 2020-08-20 20:39:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 09f9f3f452fb0028c11978bf82940f74 SHA-1: 395d8b27c0e52664a75771a20a408d228f869858 SHA-256: 7f4bb559f2052e77130d6539abe2506be8d7ad9a7f348cbe16e9d8e57289564d
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for linking to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically `https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=passive+causative+exercises+pdf+with+answers`. It also exhibits characteristics of a PDF SEO link farm, embedding numerous external PDF links, many of which point to benign Shopify domains but are likely used to artificially inflate search engine rankings. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the conclusion that it is designed to lure users to malicious sites.

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=passive+causative+exercises+pdf+with+answers
    • http://files.redriverretentionauthority.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776712/xukulimoguxal.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7799/9519/files/6760925901.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9340/8409/files/whatsapp_status_video_bhojpuri_dj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7752/4888/files/kofezabazojowag.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6352/5029/files/tejajoja.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3437/0471/files/pdf_to_word_apk_converter.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1421/8151/files/toburunobisulixijugawesob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4855/0050/files/zorezutubesosazof.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1746/0120/files/mivutunow.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00003dc0.bin
1ad2aa567a9b6a8b51071322d045f4ea65bfea454d06db1a4dbf80368ac37e2c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x3DC0 5204 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00004f7a.bin
5238eaaca868a8f9facca5a030d29543f5e673baa8a9d29c850809377aa10b13
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4F7A 8932 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00006e08.bin
1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E08 4324 bytes