Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 91f71d44887a3570…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.8 KB Created: 2020-08-14 01:02:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b34f2a784180c51a4c5b180680de94d8 SHA-1: 00a70f4043cebfa14ba4f732ce9db8213b411ee3 SHA-256: 91f71d44887a35700c70ec0fcb2f0fa5fccd22f6fe7feccfa50a834fe085fbfa
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a high number of embedded links, many pointing to external resources, which is indicative of a link farm or redirection strategy. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to a 'California background check disclosure form' and includes the malicious URL, suggesting a social engineering lure. The presence of numerous PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, further supports the link farm heuristic.

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=california+background+check+disclosure+form
    • http://files.rockgardenapartmentspefkos.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738998/pazerobu-boxujup-losumew-sarok.pdf
    • http://nirojo.naturecalling.us/uploads/1/3/1/4/131410227/4933389.pdf
    • http://files.oharts.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740118/kumewinudep.pdf
    • http://files.kdadmedia.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739810/88def88c5ce070e.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4983/5930/files/ladunuxovemar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6042/7928/files/estadisticos_descriptivos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7757/4562/files/9th_class_english_textbook_ssc.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0310/0836/files/anemia_perniciosa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2022/1596/files/dewalt_electrical_code_reference.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6304/9376/files/advantages_of_computerised_accounting_system.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0496/0661/files/wotisapekipufurabew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2171/4079/files/78675606328.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9313/1425/files/sorijetisamotuxunenomom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4953/3088/files/vowovokuk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4568/2332/files/nabujawawavitaxojibolaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0167/5939/files/lirilefem.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_off00007005.bin
00ee9906aefd8c0eb62741fdbbb1806c8d54ec47d899d24466b48f1a5da8c399
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7005 5544 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000082ae.bin
985f7ead8e148b7fe50e4a65cfffd8f9d9371b65412222b8780e116a5505d3cd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x82AE 10368 bytes