Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 898ff302fd7bd738…

MALICIOUS

PDF

106.8 KB Created: 2020-08-06 21:08:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c032a3027e70c84365cb2416a422ca30 SHA-1: e6c61804d5cb2f6a0e7d86d5c656ca01dcd1e89d SHA-256: 898ff302fd7bd738919936c6bd376338d2d2f554a96ecf9701d81e5fdf13aacf
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting it is disguised as a political party program to entice clicks. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, further indicates a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to increase visibility and potential clicks on malicious URLs. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=socialdemokraterna+partiprogram+pdf
    • http://files.vjrelectricalcontractor.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454345/8035923.pdf
    • http://lidires.v6-classic-modifieds.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384281/5266275.pdf
    • http://xopejo.maapparel.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637649/4958210.pdf
    • http://files.authorshirts.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378852/gasumepotuju.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9137/8854/files/70903890381.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1228/2789/files/64390995073.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8834/6262/files/25331565575.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1312/8863/files/bjt_transistor_basics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5920/6561/files/voxupotodigibof.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1080/8216/files/72677594713.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4704/2715/files/purugefawebizus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8774/9525/files/84704534285.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1390/6333/files/ferew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1926/3397/files/nigodutojibagig.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3854/6840/files/zilexuvujujimixabofe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5522/6778/files/jesisejaporakosisisozegon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5525/9546/files/streamline_english_4.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_off00016911.bin
2de822fa60bba57e0fa2626915112e3013c338e6c87fd69595a8646051daaeb3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16911 5464 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00017b98.bin
afa3e80f8164ad3d5c2ccef9579728688c5ccd465e1259466f0cc900774dc62d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17B98 10108 bytes