Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4214daa5fdeca246…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.2 KB Created: 2020-08-11 17:06:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b1da3e66071c162fc1fbe5c57ea33f70 SHA-1: c9fbae9a72eedf5466c21ac79f9a6d52e4fd749e SHA-256: 4214daa5fdeca246094ef01aef54725dec077f6625d23104456484cc0959dcb6
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=beyond+compare+manual+pdf'. This indicates a social engineering attempt to trick users into visiting a malicious site. The document also exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded links, many of which point to benign Shopify URLs but are likely used to obscure the malicious redirector. No scripts were extracted, and the document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of the malicious redirector is sufficient evidence for the attack pattern.

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=beyond+compare+manual+pdf
    • http://newovos.xrhodesfilms.co.uk/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681352/7437833fc0490.pdf
    • http://files.rogueamericanftbragg.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069899/vimixe_xejolovosulego_vuzogovidiwoj_rifexipe.pdf
    • http://fugigeti.concertinaman.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775732/7407aac1d62b.pdf
    • http://files.oastexas.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408024/tulesawufigarimimu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/1688/3109/files/passport_application_kenya.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6472/8479/files/remove_column_pandas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9592/5671/files/53842485183.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3588/5725/files/fobilifowifirenuveter.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5448/7969/files/how_to_draw_human_faces_step_by_step.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1576/5153/files/c_dynamic_2d_array.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8331/6891/files/vegafotifi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1478/2103/files/2587105495.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4246/4163/files/15667060205.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0242/9593/files/50133822185.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_off00006f4f.bin
b2348ee214d05e831e3aeb1731cf0e05ee99631849d8e3b9bc008721d0e8d0b2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F4F 5272 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008127.bin
4d71a5c74a6d2abf43c3947427c0f855af4ec07c0b9f7832bcfe9676fbaf643e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8127 14924 bytes