Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 953f0df60cf01cb5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

148.0 KB Created: 2020-08-06 22:55:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b86c9f142b4e06aea351d868981b3392 SHA-1: 3c97add5b0835c08bb765fc0b0c8a14d6cb909e7 SHA-256: 953f0df60cf01cb512a29be8d6458033d32f1b8b30619f3f551f9cc35b5ff31f
90 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=al+kahfi+latin+pdf'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to lure the user to a potentially harmful external site. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, but the presence of the malicious URL is sufficient evidence for this assessment.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

Heuristics 2

  • 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.
  • 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=al+kahfi+latin+pdf
    • http://files.gokulsarma.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453384/kojizumi.pdf
    • http://files.jeffersonbiggs.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606295/bfb3ea.pdf
    • http://supawemag.mintbeautyboutique.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712207/1fec431.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/30611133668.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9679/9384/files/catalago_hinode_em.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6289/4498/files/zexowilisuretowisemenajo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5014/7745/files/nulalubutituwukax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2063/8632/files/knight_physics_workbook_solutions.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5715/1142/files/orthographe_du_francais.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/gumuwajufutoz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7153/7301/files/89017352202.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/65294746239.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1557/7504/files/78331486442.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9762/9596/files/81097291208.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3057/6278/files/phonics_worksheets_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7837/6853/files/vatitamud.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
stream_006_off000207db.bin
eb21373ca68d94d5d974fdec8fce41b1e7b1e26b9d2db4f9777ab7523ea52404
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x207DB 33980 bytes
font_00_sfnt_off0001cd4d.bin
449da4f96a30b5f2347cad09716c6cf679c333646ce83e5b0a915e8a97f3ee16
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1CD4D 4908 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001de05.bin
531d98a1d1d44e1dd3b2ad1580c70f62442ebea12fd8ccc45a55866056c2094b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1DE05 12840 bytes