Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bf3eb73e17b0b6ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.3 KB Created: 2020-10-31 01:33:21 +02:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: cc6e9420836fe55835c68f1c0941e676 SHA-1: df3b7ce02e1a4bb6afad96f3086b8494b0f64437 SHA-256: bf3eb73e17b0b6adede744ca6c6ea2e0650afc67484e52c624a778ac5a0dd6c6
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 pointing to 'https://cctraff.ru/pify?keyword=clay+county+mo+property+tax+waiver'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this same URL, suggesting it's the primary lure. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many pointing to Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy, likely to obscure the malicious destination or improve SEO for phishing. The ML classifier also strongly flagged 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://cctraff.ru/pify?keyword=clay+county+mo+property+tax+waiver
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4368989/normal_5f8d5175be104.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4366375/normal_5f878c3888fe7.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4421200/normal_5f97183389c4a.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4403816/normal_5f9c4a5811dd5.pdf
    • https://cdn-cms.f-static.net/uploads/4373770/normal_5f88f26bdaf75.pdf
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.html
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0504/4060/1754/files/8th_grade_common_core_math_textbook.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3811/9838/files/menosodamu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2661/2378/files/14975050575.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0501/6934/8248/files/livingston_county_humane_society_chillicothe_mo.pdf
    • https://s3.amazonaws.com/lixuduwonifa/41974530502.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0497/7514/9234/files/compiler_design_lab_manual_rejinpaul.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0477/9045/6991/files/even_piell_lightsaber.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_off000079e8.bin
e2352655e080d89a73208b8f9cdfe81c2f0c6007c46e4e4416ef11274d8ae425
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79E8 5128 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008b62.bin
9f99e5871fa29ec012073a2a0f11a24cb163d830e4c361c431f85cbb053c84c1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B62 10776 bytes