Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e59dbbaf12ba7af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.6 KB Created: 2020-08-18 14:25:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b3e401810b7a9fbeca89572c72250522 SHA-1: 4ddc002eaf7e275b4dc4ee71c6e68d24d3ab4b39 SHA-256: 7e59dbbaf12ba7afe986d43c21baf8fa4a3065fbd46166babda180abfa1f7ec5
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a machine learning classifier and contains a critical heuristic indicating it is a malicious redirector. It also exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to external resources. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=bipartisan+campaign+reform+act+2002, which is likely used to funnel victims to further malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and other Shopify links, suggesting a coordinated effort to distribute 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.ru/pify?keyword=bipartisan+campaign+reform+act+2002
    • http://files.scperformingartsboosters.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379296/2399992.pdf
    • http://files.9thwave.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378936/84970cbe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7023/4527/files/carex_antibacterial_hand_wash_data_sheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/78539107281.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1998/5319/files/jujowo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/8517/1607/files/16160024950.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3542/5944/files/best_offline_dictionary_app_for_android_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0938/4345/files/92784536260.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2729/1542/files/11289829199.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8060/6111/files/rarukeme.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6153/3085/files/62660517637.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8034/1917/files/briggs_and_stratton_repair_manual_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3476/2654/files/africa_map_political.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0342/9535/files/xapimobizakup.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/43377474007.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0916/0862/files/5167440914.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_off00006634.bin
197d4dbb6ff653d935ba85405593bbf720d2cd74e308688ef63fdcf57b6ddb51
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6634 5416 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007879.bin
5a45fa2d4f9a31ca7e02948b0a22ed4464043d5accf9ca530fb793d630980629
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7879 10144 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009b38.bin
1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9B38 4324 bytes