Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 30b8106011623652…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.5 KB Created: 2020-08-19 17:00:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 070d390381667af090eaa986a59e9d06 SHA-1: 057d5b1f9db9f21c0098497ca804c77b7c1ed16a SHA-256: 30b81060116236521f5d049cb36ef4881598971704b1dbe180f95b49416a8f21
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=kakaotalk+apk+free++latest+version'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and references 'Kakaotalk apk free latest version', suggesting a lure for users to download potentially malicious software. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on shopify.com, indicates a link farm strategy, likely to improve search engine ranking for the malicious lure. 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.ru/pify?keyword=kakaotalk+apk+free++latest+version
    • http://files.bsmcmilehighchapter5280.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710797/7464994.pdf
    • http://files.pickempowerment.ca/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775126/93d72ad1dd4d2b7.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9282/0643/files/ets_gre_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/89186344985.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6150/2374/files/xenoreguluma.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3039/6574/files/xosodisuzibu.pdf
    • http://files.szhao.people.ua.edu/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407110/4239419.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0609/9605/files/93395794578.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7417/4622/files/xonilosofoxamekubolalom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0512/4516/files/10473407175.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8665/8213/files/16956132743.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4758/1856/files/abrao_de_pai_joo_pdf_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9105/1161/files/ganapati_atharvashirsha_lyrics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0426/4602/files/terok.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4053/7750/files/airspeed_velocity_of_an_unladen_swallow.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/lamafavikunidamekisuf.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_off0000616a.bin
52235894f817176dbd23463e297fd0f682dafb24b1b5a4e093c613450e41ed04
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x616A 4988 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007279.bin
2864a00934c0c99333a268693ad86dec498e4ec4b187d3d98ce9bab47ed639be
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7279 12300 bytes