Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8effee035756fcc2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.1 KB Created: 2020-08-12 10:43:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: acae2828ccdc7d45d0d7ed9a3d6602db SHA-1: 6083509d78a439778cd57d98a60592b3f6921c3f SHA-256: 8effee035756fcc278e7768b90bbfc47abcf2c7fe27481121e51c6580a65df51
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=ccs+medical+attendance+rules+pdf'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious infrastructure. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to increase visibility. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, but the malicious redirector is a clear indicator of malicious intent.

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=ccs+medical+attendance+rules+pdf
    • http://files.miyoshiheita.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969580/5b80a1e1f927bd.pdf
    • http://files.windowtothewild.org/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164009/gulovifik_jowolonokosu.pdf
    • http://files.princetonequestrianleague.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856318/zokazenete.pdf
    • http://files.visualmediaonline.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775725/bowet-xadokusuvizet-fovafabe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2450/6266/files/5132526759.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/1018/9480/files/analog_and_digital_circuits_for_electronic_control_system_applications.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/6584/7458/files/ren_c3_a9e_estevez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3217/2965/files/26854335084.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2703/8369/files/convert_foxit_to_word.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6835/0873/files/98165818215.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8921/3093/files/8398631187.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8150/5695/files/school_self_evaluation_form.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9454/0452/files/2858568811.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/8325/5198/files/dependent_and_independent_variables_in_research_methodology.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6625/3724/files/xizegeluvururoturaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0944/0924/files/free_to_word_converter_mac_os_x.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6718/6079/files/ancient_history_rs_sharma_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/sivezijikok.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_off00007bc7.bin
e95fc2c166696dfe7062e42cdd220f18268ce588f8bafe88d6fcf3bb2266fb72
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BC7 5208 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008d54.bin
8676e1a610e189956b79c52325fe018c522520c12b93c95098c46b020b3cb925
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8D54 9908 bytes