Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 284405f959bfa8e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

57.6 KB Created: 2020-08-07 17:19:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9d247596f14923f09189a43c10c82593 SHA-1: f0414eb5f6bdc796fa399d97c9cc4fe68d6636fc SHA-256: 284405f959bfa8e6264f6c2906c6aa56506fff08ae60cdfe1dcbeb872e6c8694
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDFs hosted on various domains, suggesting a link farm or redirector strategy. The primary malicious URL identified is 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=swing+trading+candlestick+patterns+pdf', which is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to trading patterns and the wkhtmltopdf application, indicating a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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.com/pify?keyword=swing+trading+candlestick+patterns+pdf
    • http://zupofowaf.carnegieam.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637814/dc5f87347312329.pdf
    • http://files.elizabethrona.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681969/xavasikifipigog.pdf
    • http://files.evangelistphyllisjackson.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438616/guzufizijofonap_vuwufeferafogel_dedarukeru_nurapikexo.pdf
    • http://files.thepinstation.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815220/kamudipil.pdf
    • http://files.portugalmatchworn.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969800/6761983.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8158/1209/files/vukuta.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5445/7254/files/29962206445.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5319/5165/files/qemu_img_resize.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6825/8469/files/kexegujof.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0850/6531/files/wunaxurexizemet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4601/8967/files/tinejefupi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/miveguxuxububepevomozit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8360/4903/files/23945045736.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4672/1946/files/99914212186.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4784/4000/files/7886654141.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7238/8249/files/gujuvuxupoguduwatulevarop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5013/9801/files/81356034434.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_off00009fda.bin
77ecdf20e5d83dde2c3df805434f6971bae088e35606ebc9cc980fd0a619443b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9FDA 5580 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000b2fb.bin
eda7da864ee9bae7e10b44216d82fa8e034c826ab7bb23af96335d89e6560d4f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2FB 11192 bytes