Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 20fd987af649f088…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.1 KB Created: 2020-09-07 14:33:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: af3b31f63bd83ce0158a350a9d0ba78e SHA-1: 239a8cebfe7b431313805ef8e87b37b232ecb17b SHA-256: 20fd987af649f08826747c3eb4a6356bc4b358bdc465522290a301daf2dba33f
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external resources, a common tactic for SEO poisoning or redirecting users to malicious sites. One critical heuristic firing indicates a direct link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL https://ttraff.me/wix?keyword=alberta+air+brake+manual+pdf, which is flagged as malicious. This suggests the PDF is designed to trick users into clicking malicious links under the guise of providing a useful document.

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.me/wix?keyword=alberta+air+brake+manual+pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8006/4936/files/91879063857.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8016/3227/files/nozenupezupane.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3631/8616/files/95047226988.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f459ea_c24f58c149844c3586ab69461eb1c9d8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3c8574_145cb22cfc094b0c94e242342c91eb76.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1b2801f4ef954e06afde1a49b0f6e3d3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b16523_fc719455bc87474e8780581785bbc4ad.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c7603f3b730b4ec0a5627ef94f09ea5f.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2766/0951/files/last_battleground_survival_offline_apk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/0183/9522/files/fezuwowapexemuwuxiko.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5597/1480/files/kezedizowa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2658/7549/files/xakizidavalazegureraxupo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9095/8749/files/30759922106.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0190/5315/files/jefirusoperafigure.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5771/6119/files/metropolitan_achievement_test.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0069/1862/files/accounting_tools_for_business_decision_making_4th_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6888/2072/files/zakixiguxutodabemodixof.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_off00005324.bin
9fea2ec72cb9835de61d9f32549e630dc57664db7ea533d2c75d4cd10ac76ff2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5324 5200 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000064bb.bin
0ea459b1fc7fa7b10a51339052ee08a86dd0b1a761f08e6c194ee0681f76d90f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64BB 10184 bytes