Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5420248fe345adfb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.5 KB Created: 2020-08-22 03:15:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b3b9d108a922ddecf84598f84605856b SHA-1: 79fdc199bf9a2fcfbd1c64247df915f4584fcc6e SHA-256: 5420248fe345adfbbf999235f6b5d99800678dc854cd09a0834bce989217d7e5
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The primary malicious URL is `https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=passive+voice+exercises+pdf+present+simple`, which is likely used to lure victims to malicious content. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated but contains the same malicious URL and other links to Shopify-hosted PDFs, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute the malicious PDF.

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=passive+voice+exercises+pdf+present+simple
    • http://files.schmittwoodworkingllc.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407921/6871751.pdf
    • http://files.lacaa.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407292/7336897.pdf
    • http://files.jayhawkhealthinitiative.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680986/mofosowalulesu.pdf
    • http://files.markcraiggallery.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871909/fetin-vewonid-jarijumux-pozinoxa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8568/5153/files/poultry_diseases_in_urdu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7119/9642/files/69885221888.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6859/6123/files/jalawulusorafejowibati.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4539/6384/files/rikemas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0564/8801/files/belurek.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1008/8357/files/99514585058.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5144/1563/files/1412367813.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4599/4146/files/kulobedifez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0311/5682/files/acta_constitutiva_srl_mexico.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8462/8633/files/rujikiwogomugewatimosepop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8354/6267/files/tratado_de_libre_comercio_con_la_union_europea.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4852/5206/files/genetic_algorithm_in_python.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5100/7638/files/2565928838.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4815/5806/files/brawl_stars_hack_apk_2019.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_off00004cc7.bin
9d3ab015e7c83c17f0bf03e9ada5de3ce1676de45b77f1e3c32cfb7cb51e4299
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4CC7 5428 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005f2a.bin
9c4c4766ab259116d4d7a5dddec117cc8028e676867089a18f98ba3489265691
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F2A 9772 bytes