Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8912aaf5adbf40df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.2 KB Created: 2020-08-11 08:41:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c114f0184e21d611d137f583ddf11410 SHA-1: 3825cdb7c3e93b4ea483126637317e5f5d88ccb8 SHA-256: 8912aaf5adbf40dfd9d383dcea78f0f14a01cd6c9d3e42bd202358222d5a518d
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of external links, a technique often used to create link farms for SEO manipulation or to obscure malicious destinations. One of the primary embedded URLs, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=nmr+spectroscopy+table+for+functional+groups+pdf', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to this URL and other Shopify-hosted PDF files, suggesting a coordinated effort to lure users to malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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=nmr+spectroscopy+table+for+functional+groups+pdf
    • http://files.fairhavenhome.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682851/virozu.pdf
    • http://pikoga.firstpressiloam.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606490/rataro.pdf
    • http://files.hopeheritagedays.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682039/rutuzed.pdf
    • http://files.tzcichlids.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637570/muxuforad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2236/9446/files/xejediwajijuviliz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2021/2645/files/58642676481.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2331/9715/files/25445172590.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6590/9160/files/ponokudopogez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4011/1782/files/41396171705.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1312/8863/files/sedexinazodifozujakos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7652/5984/files/melorimanopaxawubebazoxa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2391/7478/files/73180457830.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2988/7136/files/55128596830.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2005/0855/files/74369186516.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4379/9719/files/4853100542.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2433/3472/files/high_school_chemistry_study_guide.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_off00007a06.bin
e0818a71f37ca05f882b7dce5fa109790a0a31ec41d1cfb223f8290a5c7384cf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A06 5568 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008cd6.bin
1bad98f4160f62019b4eda3ebe778e725d92c7458617734574af6a74c026ceac
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8CD6 10668 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000b12b.bin
1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB12B 4324 bytes