Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4aa610603137b788…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.1 KB Created: 2020-08-21 12:57:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a0307cb08a9d32a84107ea9c1c1cafc1 SHA-1: e95dbe070118a6eb1ed2fe3d0fa3eb053b5c8d6e SHA-256: 4aa610603137b788dd089b1e2187470e349b43fa79d59c5b2bc6bac499a4e864
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=iso+8601+date+format+bash'. This URL is presented within the document body, suggesting a social engineering attempt to trick the user into clicking it. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on shopify.com, indicates a link farm SEO tactic, likely to obscure the malicious redirector. 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=iso+8601+date+format+bash
    • http://files.amplifygymnastics.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681992/4953733.pdf
    • http://ketoj.annshafer.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969596/pibipol_busizorene.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5549/6866/files/64580971320.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9903/8631/files/vatixut.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6189/4565/files/wadibez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7596/0985/files/soruvadeb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1690/4104/files/10415738749.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3353/4357/files/1897985667.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1709/9675/files/xodusedividufozatuwez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3881/0010/files/8534740473.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7898/4614/files/dutolaweza.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6779/3820/files/how_to_read_candlestick_chart_patterns.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1645/4305/files/12353661532.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3669/5959/files/legopovegexotaginuj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5679/0678/files/71443559806.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_off000066f1.bin
2611473bd50e973c43588b89c3f129e5ecddff615ca026979899221df857b050
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66F1 5736 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007a47.bin
ec09113da682eb46a21c4de444ad43fd72f2c706d5d85eb77a46784e8be9ba63
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A47 11496 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000a1b9.bin
45895599267ce770b7944221138faed73a5971737ccffdd72ef86c56b57c4533
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA1B9 16244 bytes