Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8818aa80b32d5865…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.9 KB Created: 2020-08-08 17:34:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a229ad108643c35408615a63df3f947f SHA-1: d7c56bc5b7e475660102bbdb577b0c816f9166a0 SHA-256: 8818aa80b32d5865f2bc04d086ff91d68dbb79497dff51098c009c76e239a9e9
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=isomerism+pdf+for+neet, which is likely used to funnel victims to a phishing or malware distribution site. The document body text, though partially corrupted, includes this URL and references 'isomerism pdf for neet', suggesting a lure. The presence of numerous Shopify-hosted PDF links indicates a link farm strategy to improve search engine ranking for 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.cc/pify?keyword=isomerism+pdf+for+neet
    • http://kaveri.c1comics.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871721/ziwumibubugedulipe.pdf
    • http://files.maddogslair.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815882/bodib-xuramo.pdf
    • http://files.butternutbrookequinecenter.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969656/najobibi.pdf
    • http://files.roaming.studio/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070579/rexomadudame-pesenagavuzexo.pdf
    • http://files.somewhereintimeathens.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636808/abcc589bc1ffcbf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7796/7778/files/29582541637.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8351/3494/files/72630547480.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6986/6133/files/65171965334.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6547/5226/files/sutixemurivijekip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6974/4028/files/16927515826.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8404/5719/files/bidekurewoneniximowedago.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9058/3464/files/91813035396.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8947/7273/files/21630976444.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1434/8197/files/luliwafepapenasezugifutaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0621/4819/files/69098688491.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1416/7450/files/momagitotegokevaxan.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_off00004b15.bin
5a4d55d32062f16e0480f2ab03f1ea714ac24fa40bdcc3037b06c6f8edaaa33b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4B15 4884 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005b9b.bin
4c1f7f3176e8be873d7c71c3e89b0a02b526db41d8929755cc8b082dce57a8b1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B9B 10052 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00007df1.bin
9af6fc3bf9d751f70540aea0fa47faa159a3604992cda23d2adcda3ffc5346b2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7DF1 16092 bytes