Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3b2e5d3f59fc1782…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.7 KB Created: 2020-09-01 20:40:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: aee80563e4b781e77a3db69748b91d26 SHA-1: b921e1f4430566e93d530d850b38ba33739241d1 SHA-256: 3b2e5d3f59fc17825b87d02e48a70556dde99df1ee2d1c4889e263e6f17b851e
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=chomsky+normal+form+epsilon'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, embedding numerous external links, many hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The embedded document body text, though partially garbled, contains the malicious URL and appears to be a lure related to 'Chomsky normal form'.

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/wix?keyword=chomsky+normal+form+epsilon
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4684/6107/files/borupexesidadu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/palafasejuzanuz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0783/5292/files/evangelismo_personal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/74133662670.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4616/4897/files/88025724.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4958/2743/files/zokedekubusofes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2525/0974/files/allen_carr_stop_smoking_now.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2942/2499/files/apush_give_me_liberty_chapter_24.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6404/1365/files/86057732676.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7079/0558/files/wudujedemijabebib.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/69695d_a8ad3f20bcb245e08f1501489f53794d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/345929_1bd1b84fe1314663b835c139b348e440.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_fd78d30831c44b54afee094af1d5ca48.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_fcb433e9ff0a4f59a0c432f3d3771bc9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b123b9d35bee43a28bac04eb065e97d7.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_off00006639.bin
b30de9b25e50a6e04f69389b5c94694dc28882c9220ec6574ead74aa13a9cb7a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6639 5212 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000077c8.bin
a7e057c75361448b11bb9d435b8bfd5b79719b0c5b3730c1e18f7313c9292cee
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77C8 10764 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009cb4.bin
be35776a494009fff507c08a9b82335afe09b1329e773a2b3947f9115115db20
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9CB4 16148 bytes