Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 588fc257595efc27…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.5 KB Created: 2020-08-06 09:53:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 991f720e317c5f9a181bdc9e69a8f3fd SHA-1: b7c1ba1ded7fab4bc62a0287575d2908b3eb88ed SHA-256: 588fc257595efc27c47c0e2ab1e99db901f5f87bbdd9c789fd555636b83eb84f
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is disguised as a link to a game trainer PDF. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the target URL and references wkhtmltopdf, suggesting it was generated programmatically. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy to improve search engine ranking 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=antonio+candido+pdf
    • http://files.eliseblackwrites.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381612/31c5308.pdf
    • http://files.honitonforum.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681670/tosimisofuzem_xorezubamutu.pdf
    • http://files.tomcondotta.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382274/7816343.pdf
    • http://files.chicagobonebroth.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437394/mokidaki.pdf
    • http://files.kristamasonyogafitness.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379439/tukozadisi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7841/6539/files/far_cry3_trainer.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9233/7059/files/43204710435.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6423/7988/files/69952431851.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9441/6290/files/solid_liquid_gas_pictures.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1878/7736/files/ielts_academic_reading_test_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1334/0312/files/libro_balun_canan_rosario_castellanos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0508/3811/files/struts_tutorial.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9375/4009/files/86317243962.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4443/7144/files/accuweather_douglas_az.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7076/6750/files/23578096191.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5650/5756/files/makuxizipawevu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7328/2983/files/lubidunutuvemodunad.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_off00007296.bin
b1b6c67f0c71c412b9b3101118c57545d0e765e1fe6d3185b3980ae6caf59f79
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7296 4832 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008322.bin
802f1561f475a5ed2f758b2803b413d9d8a341c445573bdb67dfdc928a95df84
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8322 9876 bytes