Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b3f2ce6a145cd75…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.7 KB Created: 2020-08-30 22:18:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9cb7a645ace3dd6d30772803565c12c1 SHA-1: 617b8e381c20a8fc50477063acf5eca56ff8b148 SHA-256: 4b3f2ce6a145cd75f3ff44342d74e361418c8865132853e04439293c28a9f2ee
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a malicious redirector. The primary malicious URL identified is 'https://ttraff.me/wix?keyword=effect+of+temperature+on+amylase+activity+method', which is likely used to redirect users to a malicious site. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, reinforcing its role in the attack. The presence of a large number of links hosted on cdn.shopify.com suggests an attempt at SEO poisoning to drive traffic to the malicious redirector.

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.me/wix?keyword=effect+of+temperature+on+amylase+activity+method
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7231/4789/files/pdf_viewer_no_toolbar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/7208/6173/files/complaint_adjustment_letter_template.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3057/6285/files/adverbial_form_of_problem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/669297692.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0692/4712/files/violencia_de_genero_definicion.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5346/6271/files/sukerosazibajebav.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3993/1038/files/arduino_println_string_format.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6572/9429/files/fodoparekutemalapore.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8514/3965/files/bujusuwagum.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/49be48_b2048341a5fe451c891b4a76fbf5dfc8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/87d215_e2127f86ff004c24a05bf524f1bfb6a1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1decf9_69c48bf7a05348be8f64543756c8c93c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/08fe48_fa81f4d6f0a8420e972b1f2e5754c89b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_92acc624d2f3472e8150f51cdc7d6fa7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3b48bc90b04548f5aeea4302140446c2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0a6b4234fe5b40cf8267ac9d5b319ead.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_086b9a1029c44e43b9d0a72b51a653bb.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_off000060a4.bin
46de49c14bf561d4afb8183c2c62c8cc075650630d844ed1390b6a5e8fda9eaa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60A4 5516 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007346.bin
8f9668eaab37c6267c22b3228a84abfe83de5c8958cf623dfddaec23398e21a4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7346 10096 bytes