Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 932aea4d02ff914f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.8 KB Created: 2020-08-30 20:18:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b735bc48167e5927b6830e803b9cabeb SHA-1: e2bd285f2fb26328dc56addc208f5804cbe22447 SHA-256: 932aea4d02ff914fa05cd67241ed772c7c277ebfa4d605855904e3ecd72be168
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=learn+english+conversation+video+fre'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded links, many hosted on Shopify. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL and references to 'learn english conversation video fre', suggesting a lure for educational content. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack pattern appears to be social engineering via a malicious link within the PDF.

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/wix?keyword=learn+english+conversation+video+fre
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1612/6625/files/fotanonadow.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9055/0679/files/dolekaferav.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6690/8063/files/dulupewoluzatokofakivub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/9942/8766/files/73155817738.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9819/3573/files/xebepijedegeziwu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0697/5382/files/revumuwefawifunubo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6859/5112/files/vegevuzojok.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0697/5382/files/wild_at_heart_facilitator_s_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/redukenedobitaguwowok.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/83142526711.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_59d43a8d6cb24b2589552ae7dbc850ae.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/43d598_5ebc2adb3a774fd9ac317cc0dc6adf43.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7005/3784/files/esxi_shell_commands.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3395/0358/files/ielts_essential_guide_reading_test_4_answers.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_off0000473d.bin
12d8d6c96e98a7c8ca1619c5642e0a4caabba939953b96e79eaa00f47673337c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x473D 5284 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005932.bin
edceb43f470667df8c5d905891861b9282bf60af96329694ef227a2d58113faf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5932 9712 bytes