Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f6bc3e5be4f6de2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.0 KB Created: 2020-08-20 02:33:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: aacbbfe6d76ccffe2f405e03b619bc5c SHA-1: e3642d741c7e5bb7afe1e2c61478e596e2502676 SHA-256: 8f6bc3e5be4f6de21653d24c032147a6e71d73e2ce30fc6dff2667a95c97798d
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded URLs, a technique often used in SEO link farms to manipulate search engine rankings or to hide malicious links among many benign ones. One of the embedded URLs, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=flaws+and+all+sheet+music', is flagged as a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL and several benign Shopify URLs, suggesting a deliberate attempt to disguise the 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.ru/pify?keyword=flaws+and+all+sheet+music
    • http://dibaku.hannahbroderphoto.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696021/ad8429af27931e7.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3536/1442/files/30657203297.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9736/7452/files/12868287260.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0620/3803/files/storyboarding_basics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2431/8618/files/adnoc_general_salary.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6881/6544/files/83435505317.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0465/0257/6286/files/41977834570.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6989/8913/files/zitasitif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5059/6512/files/comfort_zone_infrared_heater_user_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2758/6472/files/camera_scanner_to_full_apk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4788/6743/files/19637400.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0459/9011/7543/files/sort_arraylist_alphabetically_in_android.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/9944/2590/files/sovonivenukekamuxol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6703/8106/files/gente_toxica_bernardo_stamateas_espaol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2571/0756/files/68803777805.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0161/8330/files/jodepogepagesobi.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_off0000535c.bin
e0fb7b7fda9c5915caf287ca8ba16a4a9efb5f088a8597fb9d7934328486e50b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x535C 5132 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000064b2.bin
a87e043644616c751f300486b5d1d4ec4915fe2b3170ed581bc4b49834372ef5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64B2 10100 bytes