Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4bcd6ec93fc0a3ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.5 KB Created: 2020-08-04 01:53:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c4896258258c5c008c5fa832d34e8c24 SHA-1: 2fbde4c247189ee324c0a9bb24e2b9a24353b4f6 SHA-256: 4bcd6ec93fc0a3baeaf50f6e795d93642a7304b175f0a320a8bad8d16bf15e67
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=aptitude+tests+pdf'. This indicates a likely attempt to redirect users to malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text fragments and URLs that reinforce the lure of 'aptitude tests pdf'. The presence of numerous shopify.com links suggests a link farm used to improve SEO for malicious content.

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.cc/pify?keyword=aptitude+tests+pdf
    • http://files.alextechstudio.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437490/583d61a.pdf
    • http://jebujisi.meganartandphoto.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409200/wozimet.pdf
    • http://xekirow.vandrej.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815002/nixep.pdf
    • http://files.redhawktheaterbc.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381095/najusuvufipade_ruzon_tebuzogodotede_revalizo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3488/5792/files/21494120885.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4796/0232/files/90587690483.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7777/1162/files/tugadejabuvalatel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1016/9759/files/29579914193.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3438/5303/files/fences_product_key.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6547/3189/files/69603695589.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7512/5923/files/vezaputijimanukek.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/4429/6088/files/32509170471.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4656/8098/files/bexemujavalubosuzijetuvex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1373/4563/files/bella_s_lullaby_sheet_music.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8523/3304/files/kemogidemubo.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_off00006fbf.bin
bbc8376790da5691c98e600c5efbc9e508b07979858d6ffb8139780d07b8d69e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FBF 4352 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007e96.bin
9fc8242b706c47b00ad110eb277f64796573899267a226733f8b9397b15d7c2f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E96 14348 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ab57.bin
ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAB57 4324 bytes