Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 92ed4685279440c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.7 KB Created: 2020-08-06 02:11:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b11a6bf81e62dfa416742cc2e32e7e5f SHA-1: d6d6ec99011a513eb150185fd09c8aad352bf95b SHA-256: 92ed4685279440c1db366ae96453d10f1ba48b20152f0b0d7284ca93a5814cc8
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.cc'. This suggests a link farm attack pattern designed to obscure the final malicious destination. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, limiting further analysis of the specific lure.

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.cc/pify?keyword=caudillos+de+la+revolucion+mexicana+enrique+krauze+pdf
    • http://files.pennyandpearlstudio.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873902/xozelitusudapot.pdf
    • http://files.domegaiacommunities.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606822/6344667.pdf
    • http://files.whereismyeraser.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437728/4f73d5d0368d09c.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8323/5489/files/320523168.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8393/8457/files/pololu_a4988_datasheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/47878122177.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6392/7206/files/lg_mini_split_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2286/0966/files/vanudusuzidule.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3253/4440/files/49602433567.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3057/6278/files/phonics_worksheets_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2378/5370/files/11379523806.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3209/2573/files/rudeturotulavapoze.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0087/3631/files/betorimofivepemegilolor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9821/0461/files/76771148775.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1313/4743/files/41141009916.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8457/1031/files/76642817097.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9494/0573/files/puvatuxo.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_off00004f86.bin
8c4e417dec858441c13e1a48df076d56d3a65b8f2c018b6aad055a2e3df38d02
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4F86 5572 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006274.bin
95eb68d1ebf98622daf1d59717e2030c0de2e836d36b1ae241383ec35c6d0c31
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6274 11376 bytes