Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 879c471b6008518f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.0 KB Created: 2020-08-17 18:04:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b7659a349f484434adaa2d3e9b569f82 SHA-1: 0d4f53636a22b9e898af861f52b908dc1a4e611c SHA-256: 879c471b6008518fadbb145bbfeb1166931e67e0f6dc08d114588b9ef68042ed
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 external resources, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. One prominent link, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=what+is+information+asymmetry+in+economics', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. While no scripts were extracted, the structure and embedded links point towards a malicious document designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

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=what+is+information+asymmetry+in+economics
    • http://files.nmnawgj.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070434/81d2f4c88c4905.pdf
    • http://fajaged.deeplyseeded.co/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437254/gaduzetufe.pdf
    • http://files.joejuneandmae.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407364/828550.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/97697777452.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4527/3251/files/jinoruzifumudamali.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4994/2176/files/japakat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8037/5704/files/acl_reconstruction_rehab_protocol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3563/1514/files/21536829953.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9504/0924/files/tigepuginodibabofabak.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7108/6485/files/82402871811.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8946/8328/files/bakalsk_prce_osu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0658/3203/files/kozawexibupi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9956/2911/files/online_marketing_definition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5685/5190/files/53358516346.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_off000082f0.bin
ced0b0a90ad1cc4afb1347aa7b80d68c311270dca9d023cb8596a9c4ec4c4a81
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x82F0 5204 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009482.bin
07d1517ee99eec4884cfff6435c18011040bbf0a93d4a766e3e482ae04b9d1be
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9482 10304 bytes