Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4af9ca47f4c02664…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.7 KB Created: 2020-08-22 07:31:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b7f17a2a7506df3e1cb0b055bb68ad02 SHA-1: 3a66fc457af3f704cb6469f3d2e012e6f62cfef7 SHA-256: 4af9ca47f4c02664feb65c63041aef307271efeace7288f2dacafffd8bc1d73c
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=dk+encyclopedia+pdf+free'. This URL is presented within the document body, suggesting a social engineering attempt to trick users into visiting a malicious site disguised as a free encyclopedia. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on Shopify, likely for SEO manipulation or to obscure the primary malicious destination. 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.ru/pify?keyword=dk+encyclopedia+pdf+free
    • http://files.mrhansondai.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637178/7524635.pdf
    • http://files.mysonthesuperhero.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857315/7555e446b8.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0705/7825/files/72733579805.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4536/3610/files/surah_yasin_dan_tahlil_full.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5465/1799/files/201181881.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4869/6993/files/countries_of_the_world_and_capitals.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9915/1768/files/99422179723.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5349/5958/files/puwawo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0567/2597/files/biblia_de_jerusalen_catolica.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8762/4344/files/55680332528.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7423/8102/files/mimijulovugidugo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/9506/8565/files/acquiring_medical_language_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5038/5051/files/seduzokusujejadusinegev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2771/6520/files/comment_apposer_signature_document.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1216/1685/files/water_aerobics_certification.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_off00006565.bin
54b3cf1bd6ffb23e5a0513f0a14a18a0ac61b0b6ac899134d741a2c3a4e53a85
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6565 5136 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000076fa.bin
ac2ed38f6b2f27142319603eddf8d579dfca970a35e28e0d9fabbfd95a266d51
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x76FA 10260 bytes