Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 802844c490203c09…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.8 KB Created: 2020-08-04 05:15:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ba218a9d6347fe32cfd10e8d47fcbb84 SHA-1: 4898db4016cb3e91618cb0e0f55a30efad9d61d5 SHA-256: 802844c490203c0913e5fb6c85119983838d2c86df4dc84065006573f45ecf70
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 designed to lead users to malicious content. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to a neuropsychiatric interview and includes the malicious URL, suggesting a social engineering lure. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com, indicates a link farm SEO tactic to obscure the true malicious destination. The file was generated using wkhtmltopdf, a common tool for creating PDFs from web content, which can be abused for malicious purposes.

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=mini+international+neuropsychiatric+interview+6.+0+pdf+espa%25C3%25B1ol
    • http://dabusen.beatlesnow.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438464/dufotizixazi_xabasikabifiz_seneronunobirow_xawuvazawizerov.pdf
    • http://files.tribesummer.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454221/4002578.pdf
    • http://files.jayeofalltrades.com.au/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775851/2db07a.pdf
    • http://files.rightchoiceuae.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775953/1799329.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1223/5174/files/20256041364.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4285/6344/files/tabolumazuworibelebilij.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8384/2215/files/78666221431.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6397/5835/files/66061040175.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9072/9377/files/logaturod.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/75815848510.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7962/2040/files/campbell_8th_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5331/7272/files/abbvie_pipeline.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0268/2789/files/tutakogobivifonolanu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0604/2023/files/33788385506.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1687/1333/files/26973186330.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6268/0984/files/76347080032.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0827/8171/files/jazelu.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_off00005a3a.bin
5e195f80a5e69d9d0e6b69c4de3d4f209e07eddd1d5979f81d8f81339051a036
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A3A 6044 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006eae.bin
c40e58ee4ab358f837474ee591368f56481157394d525cda2df9325bb0440394
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6EAE 10648 bytes