Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 881423fcce35922d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.5 KB Created: 2020-09-06 02:29:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7f316a1ef7fff50f7d572257bb64201e SHA-1: 3ca550579c995622b6f2af8cd929b6ec1a165489 SHA-256: 881423fcce35922df9d0b53e6e301d5db267ecd6906040621bed7a4ca520f388
154 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a lure text suggesting it is an analysis report, but its primary function appears to be hosting a large number of external links. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.link/pify?keyword=hydrometer+analysis+report', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' indicates the presence of 26 external PDF links, suggesting a link-farming or redirection scheme designed to lead users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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.link/pify?keyword=hydrometer+analysis+report
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5552/0673/files/mumefed.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7797/5712/files/modele_attestation_employeur_2018.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5703/5929/files/rawefofiwuluvi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8609/4248/files/el_materialismo_dialectico.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7480/5148/files/87270059374.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8875/4328/files/6140556664.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/529dbf_6379fa81fddb43a0b1e004347800a1f1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d5d855_0d9040a4365c44dd8adf5e89749df620.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6379/5096/files/wuromoroxefefu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6962/7799/files/tamil_nursery_rhymes_lyrics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0582/1599/files/zobipililineb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1340/5850/files/xufawefopidiwitup.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2066/2422/files/anatomy_and_physiology_revealed_3._0_free.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
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pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x59C6 5168 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006b43.bin
ccbe3d4ea6eea1233eebeae0aa0c80c89888df5acee6d05b6d1dc7d7c45e2f23
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B43 10052 bytes