Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 390251b4bd9acf69…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.5 KB Created: 2020-08-03 21:57:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 99f2804e9554b5c4fd7e163c112a3d62 SHA-1: 763863bc0a52abb11335e0fc8ca73d1d7da4860b SHA-256: 390251b4bd9acf6941185b17d4c22caa3bfd8d3e77d5a13e4b9a2a61a0d8f2e4
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link disguised as a download for 'microstrip antenna theory pdf'. The link, https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=microstrip+antenna+theory+pdf, is a known malicious redirector. The document also contains a large number of other links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to improve search engine visibility for malicious content. The ML classifier 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.cc/pify?keyword=microstrip+antenna+theory+pdf
    • http://files.j9wise.net/uploads/1/3/0/9/130968947/pedajilona_midapulufep_timibav.pdf
    • http://files.shirlarae.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163957/kasasigabo.pdf
    • http://files.vintagecycling.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712355/f03148.pdf
    • http://files.thesanctiflychick.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739831/2782723.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3811/3955/files/todalilidipesijitaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9063/1064/files/gulotelonimonud.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1842/8326/files/fracture_mechanics_anderson_solution_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0939/2285/files/16781844247.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7182/3262/files/78047915534.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/39858795743.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/61927850068.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8362/0757/files/docker_run_ubuntu_bash.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7351/9272/files/79202619235.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5011/4965/files/xupipulax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0638/5573/files/fajivijefalaxole.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8851/9076/files/bulefo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6564/7002/files/mojegubigotimivu.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/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/06

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007bbe.bin
ae88d3da23ff216e0389ab00a8db941b3edbde34ca25282ae06c19c4af719349
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BBE 5316 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008de6.bin
5739a3a0566c24e835f9219b4eac9fb7585a18ae1b3589ca0f77b39a3340b898
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8DE6 10140 bytes