Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 959b457acbb3bf78…

MALICIOUS

PDF

77.5 KB Created: 2020-09-17 05:38:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a4ddf431ab3ab5740dabd4e5861e4708 SHA-1: ea786073d6c6792d59b83bf66192804d0bcaed13 SHA-256: 959b457acbb3bf78dd5bc66636c5d0e79a69dc65d09003e2c9df23863f11659e
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links to external websites, many of which appear to be part of a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at https://ttraff.club/wix. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL. This suggests the primary purpose is to redirect the user to malicious content.

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.club/wix?keyword=muslim+tribes+in+mindanao
    • http://files.thedivineu.academy/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606954/fb7ae563.pdf
    • http://files.paolositaliankitchen.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873941/guzusazezomisifo.pdf
    • http://files.sprucehousingcoop.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453950/zasikariget-gabumisakopepum-foliwemazutimo-zufozeva.pdf
    • http://files.danbrambilla.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398292/6805585.pdf
    • http://tujugomad.wesselsdancestudio.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874388/e40a2cc75dfe0fc.pdf
    • http://kutop.fillinupmyteacup.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873947/fesagabituxozexarer.pdf
    • http://files.annagalatirealtor.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776718/979473.pdf
    • http://files.fotsga.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739311/ee63bb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8667/5109/files/management_information_system_questions_and_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6835/0886/files/tow_dolly_straps_tractor_supply.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8957/6601/files/pebagefajelewevin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1438/8888/files/telowowewimuwodibilukuw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1014/3902/files/sofa_score_sepsis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5892/0610/files/jewanaxizom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6875/2023/files/xapivopoxifo.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_off0000e5d6.bin
3bbc5eca6e2a3672dfc12226ace759cebb69d0ed442cd463ff522deee90af593
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE5D6 5000 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f6ae.bin
00924a5cf0b25344feecfc16c1ec6697d7cfb15342ec7481ead0ae32dc93603a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF6AE 10468 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00011a71.bin
ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11A71 4324 bytes