Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 833a88ac8bfb484a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.6 KB Created: 2020-08-10 20:10:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 031b5e0e5f70ebf2115f79e31de023dd SHA-1: 673bb6a711fcc475518427d95a3a7a22374e86a0 SHA-256: 833a88ac8bfb484ac9c34c5a98f66ade08ffa628c2c2d635181b52031a825e27
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a malicious redirector link disguised as "cost accounting mba notes pdf". This link, https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=cost+accounting+mba+notes+pdf, leads to known malicious infrastructure. The document also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various PDF files, likely to manipulate search engine results or distribute further payloads. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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=cost+accounting+mba+notes+pdf
    • http://files.cambridgeartfair.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070313/1a54fd3c5.pdf
    • http://files.knappbiz.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776220/lufotinabuzezobaf.pdf
    • http://files.bornleaderconsulting.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682040/fusabinobafape.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2689/8344/files/91798415883.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3731/0632/files/mtg_arena_wineskin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8427/4069/files/cell_structure_and_function_worksheet_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3544/3871/files/68749496919.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6819/4978/files/36431022850.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6092/8405/files/74001098583.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4016/2470/files/26914237052.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7783/6703/files/android_sqlite_tutorial_for_beginners.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9746/4731/files/konimerapefij.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9929/0776/files/manual_snow_plows.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0385/3476/files/25148936456.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7990/9030/files/tezomupatatowitujiwotig.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5501/4298/files/pipafemututovuzu.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_off0000685c.bin
ffeb89eaad713c9717385028f79c9757067aafb2c2382ea8cbab0e6efe35a425
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x685C 6744 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007944.bin
ac3af43cbf7da4f0dd44f8a7d0035a6edb2017e763f8424f708d9e824a2263f7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7944 5392 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00008b88.bin
3b617967617c2562a25e4948231ea4359cf3d6f8786c09b28f7233dc08a8b891
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B88 11444 bytes