Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 557cca3978688ec6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.8 KB Created: 2020-08-20 10:47:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a78d4d5d97c66d22cdef4e17e9a5beda SHA-1: 2f4255af94336968bc3bbc5462967387872d9bca SHA-256: 557cca3978688ec6eda2705a702715541091aa96fcaa39a8ed596282a2501b2e
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=betty+crocker+cookbook+pdf'. This URL is presented within the document body, disguised as a Betty Crocker cookbook PDF, indicating a social engineering lure. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute the malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector is the malicious URL embedded within the document.

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.com/pify?keyword=betty+crocker+cookbook+pdf
    • http://files.sscaz.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873828/vejilot-xuwat-suxufaborok.pdf
    • http://files.sahja.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398221/davunu.pdf
    • http://files.fullcirclefarming.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380308/90d7b3a.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5806/9655/files/91018779873.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3622/1341/files/jodirotuw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1573/9304/files/28287267092.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7998/1470/files/allseasonsuniforms_coupon_code.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9982/4032/files/application_form_template_for_employment.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3867/7924/files/75070320197.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2140/9184/files/bbl_fixture.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8976/4245/files/40055565502.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8039/9510/files/lonizefiruwe.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000058ea.bin
4a1c3c87807bb3ca93622bc2f50f526be6939ecf2782d4c0980080e27351b10c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x58EA 4720 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006908.bin
a36eee06fef6ce219692c4ec918276ac99413e4fd1e3666e4031624f9289d620
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6908 1800 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00007195.bin
4a170e44f7a6b27bdb3a5502177d8fdde49f44f83319e58c68af42b1adff214c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7195 10120 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0000943a.bin
7f6049e5011acf0e8581793f2bc2bb947aac2929fdb77abc318b2a6155c1ef71
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x943A 4324 bytes