Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 539b9670b8971f49…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.7 KB Created: 2020-08-02 13:45:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: af3c21dc029ea072a601ae26d7d54e19 SHA-1: b8b1819d44b3807eb5f62e31c72ff614c0e47c67 SHA-256: 539b9670b8971f49f990a1853763e606c894ac8571ef49857bcec702eaf91775
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files hosted on various domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. One of the primary links, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=signature+lab+series+general+chemistry+answers', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and other Shopify-hosted PDF links. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF structure itself is suspicious due to the mass of external links.

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=signature+lab+series+general+chemistry+answers
    • http://files.mail.venltransport.nl/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070313/kigoge-juraxadigorun-jizokozuxa-topaxisujanu.pdf
    • http://files.marzipan-media.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856184/7584706.pdf
    • http://files.thelittlepointbookshop.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740231/162bd.pdf
    • http://files.qarpet.shop/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969065/8566434.pdf
    • http://files.edgeofthevillage.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606289/wujadisunova-sewifoxerefe-bosadixitifeb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6948/6757/files/lajikarafuvevixododopekot.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6622/0956/files/zowawugukowexu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0643/5232/files/xakowojetavekezarex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3373/9932/files/mirizaxakenasadur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7974/6201/files/52009319157.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5174/5442/files/gexepog.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5608/6696/files/fonepowibopazufoju.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3197/0471/files/doxigakegovaninijiket.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1760/1181/files/xazovadulo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5407/1957/files/download_wattpad_stories.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9151/5809/files/rofabatodenerajanolajubas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4191/4006/files/41376764746.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0963/7533/files/vasejufokemaxe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9754/7157/files/56657207410.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5432/4117/files/vabuvinekevugadepanopebip.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_off00007002.bin
d923c24c9acb4e5da01734952ff8931c218a5edc2462b958b4c26511b8b90c36
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7002 5648 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000832c.bin
b00bb91089816ccabc539e18915b6bb41c282c9a66dc224623770eb2c2223dc7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x832C 9816 bytes