Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2868968550867c9b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.3 KB Created: 2020-08-30 21:15:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b1acdb52f46891571957c2ec2865be38 SHA-1: 244c0a6a9a8a8f97aea8258daab5fa0b0a286e9a SHA-256: 2868968550867c9bc708a796009f4fca92a73a2812d86ecdfad19d87e6cfc6cf
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.cc/wix?keyword=god+bless+you+mr+rosewater+pdf'. Additionally, it features a large number of external PDF links, characteristic of a link farm, with the first URL being 'https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/zugazad.pdf'. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URLs, reinforcing the malicious intent.

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.cc/wix?keyword=god+bless+you+mr+rosewater+pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/zugazad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2772/5477/files/rupokomujimelapamis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9980/8149/files/14567573161.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7749/3146/files/bhagavad_gita_by_swami_chidbhavananda.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0865/4492/files/computer_memory_and_its_types.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7ebabf572332487ba4a4f7712ca3cfcc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3b48bc90b04548f5aeea4302140446c2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a298ce_655d4ca92197493fa225d7dcb575564b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_cde69cece01944fc9a72117725dfb31a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f6a87fb6912d40de9e8e8e6d477cc261.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5438e3_07a3e5b3f9bd482190d03d44c1e53d69.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9e1c61c51be84153849c08e21797f6cc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d35862a6fabe4deaa45b4555f8f02bd8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e2c6c1_ad0cd77fc162417582fdba029b3591d0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9b33c5_10049e13f0e34ad1a47ec1e41cac6432.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000064b2.bin
3725d16bbe9e94af3cd071e7fffffeed588154183d7b7f31f977da21a1b19b73
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64B2 5280 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000076c4.bin
ace254e623a9a53381f0cfea25a3eebaf413f7b62f1d421936949a2f2c1b354a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x76C4 10436 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000099d4.bin
cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x99D4 4324 bytes