Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ca35295d5e179f9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.7 KB Created: 2020-09-06 19:53:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 974ac6b774a06a97b9f3279858f3e44b SHA-1: 78868f21cd1ef7f65a602a34b13d216e26e1cda1 SHA-256: 8ca35295d5e179f9e38b1cb7ac914db1d1e0495047de0ba86d5736c0bcd0efdf
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.club/wix?keyword=bangladesh+govt+holiday+2019+pdf'. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF link farm pattern, with numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to Shopify. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body contains garbled text but also includes the malicious URL and several benign-looking PDF links, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the malicious redirector.

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.club/wix?keyword=bangladesh+govt+holiday+2019+pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0894/8386/files/tujuan_bioremediasi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3366/4420/files/tukiwaxilomexutif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/9390/5828/files/writing_academic_english_ann_hogue.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3042/9346/files/lotaxivas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3975/9259/files/balomifitu.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/04e6f9_8ebfe675e6da4d67862b383522146931.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3d0627_040bb3768339498ebe24032b665bf66b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0cbf90df8ae845fba507f72abba8354c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d34944ebd7a840a1aca28e821e20bf63.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/30ea26_108b304f707d4e069477ca947423387d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9b33c5_8143c596e1b942f7bbde5a4cce475d89.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/314c35_950037c464da47eaa9afb71fc4788096.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/dc8a8e_ee7c32c5d386410dac5c4f0e81bf526d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/72b0e7_dd52152eb0cb41d1823a60abc683e966.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_off00005e03.bin
b6e80166fcc9292bf37367ad82d321b7661c07284dcd96772b5791f225a386da
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E03 5688 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000716b.bin
d069192cb9dde62d7167186781954b7dc8ce622bda4deda3a376316f48c5daa1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x716B 10532 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009432.bin
cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9432 4324 bytes