Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c18203c0193475e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.7 KB Created: 2020-07-27 18:56:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ab279222f783ba33eb25025fce72c707 SHA-1: bb157857c6bb909718ee73eb2a0b9dc4221546b9 SHA-256: 2c18203c0193475e04c6f1c9187778c16577b5c6af25bb54fb118e20b57e7334
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, identified as a 'PDF SEO Link Farm', with a significant portion pointing to cdn.shopify.com. One critical heuristic indicates a direct link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'ttraff.com'. The document body contains garbled text but includes the string 'Chaka demus and pliers music', which appears to be used as a keyword in the malicious redirector URL. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous links and the malicious redirector strongly suggests a phishing or redirection attempt.

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=chaka+demus+and+pliers+music
    • http://files.northlandquiltersguild.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712080/fezegawiv_wewitilifogad_nokoxiri.pdf
    • http://files.harmonizeyourspace.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302913/6922088.pdf
    • http://files.iangarlandfalconry.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776063/3e789.pdf
    • http://files.caroline-gibbs.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637402/3500215.pdf
    • http://files.hansenbuildrestore.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696558/xaxebizanexoje_kesakasesel_nerodu_zekabole.pdf
    • http://files.caroline-gibbs.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637402/3500215
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9140/9562/files/firilezopu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7689/4372/files/22257997389.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6649/8965/files/17062259108.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0432/1184/files/19513560394.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/sivezijikok.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/zosakasebiribo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3926/8769/files/suxapiwozuwanogifopivofe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1090/8572/files/figafomanefajur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5387/5357/files/24582919428.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2131/8818/files/97745828181.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7245/3797/files/vigatusuzaxo.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_off000072a9.bin
e1c86aac0c13df650768206b725e0de6548e82be6ca2a9bde6e949cad7496ab6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72A9 5092 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000083b9.bin
7970007277e12455d36930e0d1f0d68b7f44297d08c4a3695f5a9ba91537046e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x83B9 2872 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00008fbf.bin
e8f4c1edb9dfe2a04b9b6d28c9efb1fcda8b4f521527c2c237b51bacc79f7a36
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8FBF 9836 bytes