Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 801e7b35e9ab8698…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.8 KB Created: 2020-08-25 05:24:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9ab2968f1955e82aaae33f568497f976 SHA-1: cf886eac8c6df4e4a369ce8d936f7030cbcab38e SHA-256: 801e7b35e9ab869870fd63ef574f07f012ad67506a5ca6bf5f5b061830ebabd2
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, which points to `https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=ups+preventive+maintenance+checklist+format+pdf`. This URL is presented within the document body, disguised as a legitimate checklist. The PDF also contains a large number of external links, many hosted on `cdn.shopify.com`, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=ups+preventive+maintenance+checklist+format+pdf
    • http://burib.designdome.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813528/jonabevorufet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4891/0491/files/rawukupigofodalij.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0760/5923/files/lowes_salina_kansas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1819/6891/files/83887754621.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1540/4711/files/report_card_geo_news_13_feb_2019.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4989/3531/files/6309325971.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1785/4373/files/ripikoxifur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3311/6315/files/nuxewagutoraxit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/0803/2669/files/conference_registration_form_template_word.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/xasojikunu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8768/1952/files/anthropological_research_methods.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4945/0661/files/patafufibuwopul.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0717/9941/files/32799002495.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3462/4679/files/world_customs_organisation_illicit_trade_report.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1474/0375/files/set_english_questions_and_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8725/0087/files/sokorelaneder.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_off0000650a.bin
7a14103a9e946128c98890c530ed9ab49d2e0896a4dc7925adb89de139aaf0c1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x650A 5512 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000779d.bin
25a9fcfd9f0a79f794d2d73e2038620881e04af0dbfcb9ae8bca762e2404c5de
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x779D 10200 bytes