Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3af9dc7012ae5a6f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.0 KB Created: 2020-08-23 14:20:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ad5b1e5c85c3a9c0a0c4e2c5177039dd SHA-1: bb56110cf136042941add3a2f5d30615998c1a37 SHA-256: 3af9dc7012ae5a6fb374921dd64d35c1c0a9ff9e22103c101622b72dadc1173e
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to the malicious URL's keyword and also lists several other URLs, many of which are hosted on Shopify. The heuristic firings indicate the PDF is designed as a link farm and redirects to malicious infrastructure. The primary attack pattern involves luring users to a malicious site via these embedded links.

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=raju+bhai+movie+song+ringtone
    • http://files.wanderlustneverdies.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382630/4809050.pdf
    • http://files.thewallssager.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775846/zofudaxeluzun-vogake.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0703/9897/files/leadership_styles_meaning.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3641/6936/files/bafg_antrag_zusatzerklrung_formblatt_3.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6888/2072/files/96998473235.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5296/6812/files/tg20_compliance_sheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7612/4821/files/catalina_final_dmg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7471/4790/files/vewonomeborefagosubitos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7662/4279/files/31085292348.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6225/5006/files/ccna_data_center_640_916_study_guide_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5415/4406/files/20327034923.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3647/3501/files/pelinesekeka.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7443/7791/files/30013754518.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9657/8975/files/cuentos_chinos_andres_oppenheimer_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7107/6520/files/tesis_doctorales_en_administracion_de_empresas.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_off00004d9a.bin
ebe9ae49f7071d35992e9a6dd81659ba530e4e584a44fd199067358447572840
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4D9A 5348 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005fb1.bin
893614ac38d958667970697d448d384f672f42fba6b2c0cc32d5096093b4ec23
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FB1 9920 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000081de.bin
811cb43ea49db1d375adcff8b63deb0ca68061793fbd83e78364948f1f5ce546
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x81DE 4640 bytes