Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 825a515bb31c75cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.1 KB Created: 2020-08-01 10:29:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a416c43aca2dff112052683b4fa0f477 SHA-1: d2f8e3b3ee1110686dd4be8f29574eb7cc001b5a SHA-256: 825a515bb31c75ccef531e606b85e6633603a09c93fc04c75035d28c94cb0fe6
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is likely used to funnel victims to a malicious site. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and references to 'a deeper love inside', suggesting a lure. The PDF also contains a large number of external links, many pointing to Shopify domains, which is characteristic of SEO link farm abuse to obscure the final malicious 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.com/pify?keyword=a+deeper+love+inside
    • http://files.brentfields.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130815437/pukajorowis_somapopivubazeb_vevuxemobun_dexif.pdf
    • http://files.hooverridge.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407369/bapexalenawavafebi.pdf
    • http://files.blackwatervideo.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856877/a6847938.pdf
    • http://files.jewellhjohnson.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132816158/252b1d3f634b0.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2590/7368/files/88240125574.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0385/3476/files/15193793921.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0097/8853/files/4476058953.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5106/5243/files/what_dies_lml_mean.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8976/5279/files/samabutikoto.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0350/1989/files/37415074859.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0733/6857/files/95800333851.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7668/0869/files/5802787686.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9636/7511/files/vajukodezu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4615/1078/files/dawigaximunej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4816/3735/files/gevizakenis.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_off000067e0.bin
40c3dbc9ec1163e46d24a1d668f91df2fdbcc5a207e9fd874c1806bcc5dadc00
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67E0 4792 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007842.bin
a543245db3557b5356b138fe64d76555bcb0b12131b35a5aa42bdeec9f4676fa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7842 14664 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000a682.bin
ea75db71c9df7250347a03039f742fcd189f5fc3f08964e696816fa8b5227073
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA682 16092 bytes