Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 92cd9063d6a54cd9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.0 KB Created: 2020-08-23 21:43:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c250eff38a56f09b44e2961ecbf65743 SHA-1: 19f1a42b3d19f62768ac59a2366cb57ce2e5026e SHA-256: 92cd9063d6a54cd92c9db531a5e73f0a64cea5701c252ff51cb1cf76c444b90e
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.ru'. This suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning technique used to distribute malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL, reinforcing the intent to redirect the user. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of further stages.

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=just+the+facts+investigative+report+writing+pdf
    • http://files.travelerstateofmind.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738836/3933268.pdf
    • http://lamur.whistlepigsaloon.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814017/7145142.pdf
    • http://gofen.clubviprec.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873851/eb9f716cae.pdf
    • http://files.mrsthurberhistorycom.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636834/jamutokofov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1131/7658/files/wedefiwawedit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2440/8991/files/rijije.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1390/6327/files/tedavovisimup.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8365/3535/files/98513695453.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3100/2269/files/jabavazomosalemefagazubo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8145/0147/files/77530615163.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4535/4658/files/15933065522.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1651/0873/files/fasenerotizutibilixit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1411/1903/files/52129329792.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7024/2460/files/zonebi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3595/0241/files/les_alphas_livre_du_maitre.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2409/7191/files/counter_strike_1._6_free_for_mac.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_off0000756f.bin
30f129f660f956ee6280934d399c74215bf4ccdd85260d0e5ff0563a4a50744c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x756F 5408 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000087da.bin
b92f87a3c1de8a1ba4a3af2fb1a8e5901fa1ba4f92ddc5d9ce8b6bb8fb388b76
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x87DA 10624 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ac16.bin
05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAC16 4324 bytes