Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 574e80d32a99cdcd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.8 KB Created: 2020-08-24 13:19:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: acc9032594fd9874a2302014d5298fac SHA-1: 9a0d7f20158d368e8758f531acfd8ef260dc8d43 SHA-256: 574e80d32a99cdcded9b52e55bb57e03066faf88e71d3c56482d725f145e8f8d
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to potentially malicious redirectors or unknown domains. The 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' and 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' heuristics confirm the presence of these malicious links. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that aligns with the observed malicious link farm behavior. The primary goal appears to be directing users to external, potentially harmful, websites.

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=artistic+photoshop+actions+free
    • http://xuxej.borderstarpta.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740596/1788353.pdf
    • http://files.harrisburgvictimhelp.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813416/9668581.pdf
    • http://files.jmn-i.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814642/badegumun-vafadivo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2291/6520/files/uspto_allegation_of_use_form.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6662/2101/files/ferapupuwirilovifil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5158/1597/files/momuwerabedaku.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3228/9175/files/94033703574.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9898/1030/files/56443986731.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9712/8102/files/tuguzirozajuj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3046/3135/files/31464109792.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1653/4690/files/area_code_570_cities.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6524/4832/files/fibigutavoxukejazotokibi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7358/3781/files/kawuxi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8954/2809/files/auto_format_css_vscode.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_off00007f29.bin
0f24a70224a1119f27f15d1848067a855014425364f765234df2a5196ba8df22
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F29 5060 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009055.bin
08ded7257a2243a2e6688da9d93b96ead7442fc7d2e35ab720d63052c22e9558
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9055 10080 bytes