Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc74c2f7b16efbd0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.4 KB Created: 2020-10-12 05:32:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-05-22
MD5: 392c3b71ff99b96aaaa5c4268b5f635c SHA-1: e629a5f296cdcc12fed52c96dc2be545e5190f5d SHA-256: dc74c2f7b16efbd0b01cdb87eba18d9ba972c3eeb03e6926f26aa5b9ed20dc6e
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 pointing to redirector infrastructure, including the primary malicious URL https://ttraff.link/pify?keyword=icy+veins+arcane+mage+easy+mode. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to game guides and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the link. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, indicating a high likelihood of it being used for phishing or malware distribution.

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=icy+veins+arcane+mage+easy+mode In PDF document text
    • http://danufebow.santoroc.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303108/3592f1105.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.jonataschimen.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712348/semiboxoxov_gonesa_kuwewogiman.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.sohoperformingarts.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969176/2465535.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/f976a12c-e243-4256-bfe6-2ef183d56fe1/rirezixulawigerepez.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/020f7581-6118-4d8a-9f4d-91d88eedd24d/49155327400.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/1914a699-a8c7-4f80-8e72-3c17cc9dd099/3998985063.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/9c2d5b45-5798-478f-a1dd-6fe79ded4a58/jinogufegetazefidisim.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/58156d26-1589-4d20-b34d-bd34dae5f8e6/lebenazovivopin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0268/8571/8189/files/vimovebisipa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0483/5966/9909/files/65885151921.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0308/3928/files/71873580632.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0485/0810/8955/files/diablo_3_switch_farming_guide.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7102/0957/files/skyrim_shadow_stone_reddit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/4028d97e-4c8a-4ad9-8c70-9faa0231c4e2/zerolenojexo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/5eb8ba79-7717-42df-9afa-5f86a2b11e05/63528798868.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006fc0.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FC0 5036 bytes
SHA-256: 733f2c2b4d4b1b2f3ce3a229d1aaba819c63f0dc29fd667dc5a5c27d54320b99
font_01_sfnt_off000080bc.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x80BC 11096 bytes
SHA-256: 5428ab2b6984a3a9d5f967a9ef0f11b90dea8fc13892bbf056f2c92c6a0b6322
font_02_sfnt_off0000a687.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA687 4324 bytes
SHA-256: 0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333