Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f3955a0f436171a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.6 KB Created: 2020-08-31 14:43:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9c30a329f6f54e74d37a04a02357cca3 SHA-1: eb7cb83f111b8233d3ddd25e34ff390831d8691e SHA-256: 1f3955a0f436171afe82469593cc180d68910431085c74e318f7638854aaf35f
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=alala+kanda+tamil+song'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, embedding numerous external links, one of which is 'https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4273/4229/files/dotomaxojam.pdf'. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body contains garbled text but includes the malicious URL and several benign-looking Shopify URLs, suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious redirect.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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.ru/pify?keyword=alala+kanda+tamil+song
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4273/4229/files/dotomaxojam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3366/4420/files/electra_x2_datasheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4702/4805/files/wofimimusutidaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9438/5575/files/78182257002.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/9065/7687/files/megger_earth_tester_user_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9071/5548/files/mivulikaruve.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9792/2461/files/cell_organelles_and_their_functions_quiz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7276/6631/files/matekonem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/97072231683.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5899d5_0f3b108bb6064dc3bd8896cb0dc4d5d2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2b25b5_51d626889b7e45c78446aebbd776a67b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b7b30d30360941fc9ee6229c55a5721d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/469aea_c74eef0f40b344dd922e7689f2764a5d.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9901/9682/files/gedonitij.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3866/2053/files/29407615232.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5523/4710/files/xejoro.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/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006953.bin
0ce9cdf180f84699a803d11762c5d2b44745013aa4b8d2bbcfa11334c56021ed
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6953 5100 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007aa1.bin
4e9c2fd457bc1e2933320ff29a99a834cd5ceb9d7c554242cee0cc7928c64403
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7AA1 12368 bytes