Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a285ea30b02c7e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.4 KB Created: 2020-08-12 06:14:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9c0e5a7ddeb6ae6d15d0343fcd5be190 SHA-1: 0612180040e1daab91cab6ffa9bbc860a466ce3d SHA-256: 7a285ea30b02c7e68a2cc35a22fe53c7195a42e233c9dca83f6fc1b8e4081cd6
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, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/wb?keyword=whistler%20trx%201%20manual'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to a potentially harmful site. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many hosted on external domains, further supports the 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' heuristic, suggesting a broad distribution or SEO-poisoning tactic. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded URL itself is the primary indicator of malicious intent.

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/wb?keyword=whistler%20trx%201%20manual
    • http://files.suncityprides.org/uploads/1/3/2/8/132816066/teniwigizunik.pdf
    • http://ninamu.whittonprecision.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163635/budese.pdf
    • http://kaduxag.k-scopesolutions.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738632/gumafaperolip-javujibepokewu.pdf
    • http://fakiputav.authormariebenedict.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874493/gajewixi_vaxubepejido_kewixonagek.pdf
    • http://files.candacesam.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070859/5182253.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/1314/0643/files/los_4_acuerdos_toltecas_libro.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5946/8701/files/34358883105.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5951/0424/files/95908533691.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9812/9059/files/13271255576.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8331/6891/files/88806222891.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/47171602999.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4272/5275/files/gate_2020_instrumentation_syllabus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3849/8198/files/dizesejexusojivato.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3389/2763/files/68733309657.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6522/0003/files/43307847165.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0700/0219/files/75407633773.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000662d.bin
102ef3842cfb38625bf605ba44a25518d7f9aec2d0b05118d9f562fb022408cb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x662D 4832 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000766a.bin
4c8aa0dc0699ab4aa5884ea4cb3a46f0c247c6401281f61ca887ad3028e192a8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x766A 10536 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009a90.bin
b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9A90 4324 bytes