Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 79867e70dcddbb65…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.1 KB Created: 2020-08-09 18:52:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a7228c56cd88d1ccfe5931c968449ca9 SHA-1: 4889e2eaa4e1dd9ea7d040a77651ff9b012f4104 SHA-256: 79867e70dcddbb6526bcbb00bfea2b8f2d16ff3ec99fd2511d10cd6a0bda7418
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'birthday invitation letter format pdf' and includes the malicious URL. This suggests a social engineering lure to redirect the user to malicious content. The PDF also contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, which is indicative of a link farm used to obscure the ultimate destination.

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=birthday+invitation+letter+format+pdf
    • http://tadik.retrohacks.net/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069839/bijoras_deketid_xovizefuvadet.pdf
    • http://files.buildhealthyseniors.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813988/67c91d4d2.pdf
    • http://files.visitsmithcountyms.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682883/c01545f011.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8452/9310/files/gisuzafujugokapezivobeba.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7513/3859/files/food_sensory_evaluation_form.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3907/2161/files/repupotujexututidesuj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1123/4199/files/list_of_20_amino_acids.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0172/4580/files/carcinoma_papilifero_tireoide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7704/1304/files/71721961168.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2199/1079/files/govozox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1022/0447/files/54014795371.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9236/8798/files/laluvalidowut.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8339/9329/files/bedupefora.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4351/1706/files/wekozikexapefipibexi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8846/9398/files/65999744833.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/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000069f1.bin
443141fdde7f89ff12a617e9884266c650a01c215a0d98ede1a7ca413438cbde
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x69F1 5104 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007b27.bin
9fa9936a2b8ef6a66047bf8b450d6e7d5e295881f3e282d190363eb29f259949
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B27 14640 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000a91e.bin
cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA91E 4324 bytes