Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 960517033d03efd5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.3 KB Created: 2020-08-08 06:53:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b53cb3a887cd96732ca9372306caafc9 SHA-1: d756491d08aef089d6f609edc317011a1be3b9bd SHA-256: 960517033d03efd5108a2dd2ba5c850db920b31f3776a4065525cbe1ec613139
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of external links, many pointing to what appears to be a link farm designed to obscure the ultimate destination. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=navneet+books+online+pdf'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and numerous other Shopify links, suggesting a coordinated effort to distribute malicious content or conduct phishing. No scripts were extracted, but the link farm and redirector strongly indicate a malicious intent.

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.com/pify?keyword=navneet+books+online+pdf
    • http://files.nightwispdesigns.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740260/peviwobejis-zefemi-sopuvinamorul.pdf
    • http://files.yanki-rosepinky.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814155/1826090.pdf
    • http://files.rebelcruzers.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739251/b3b8eed2e.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4832/1692/files/94860104074.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/birizakidunupujudexi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9524/4441/files/business_report_writing_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0874/3834/files/espn_live_nfl_scoring.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8828/9694/files/pugonelawarezabu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7848/3096/files/34132538832.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3017/4113/files/baunvo_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3880/8991/files/24022371592.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4190/7110/files/67272406275.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7036/5589/files/wedubukaxapepok.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2834/9085/files/3528286813.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7738/6918/files/81162873829.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3668/0098/files/dazapejodufagolis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6624/4766/files/85423188570.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_off00005906.bin
3ec0d87c9993898c1d66a15a06ae4880b6606aab7e26ed38070b2ce77bd41a94
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5906 5172 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006abc.bin
8d750c7d4eeef383e11289eff9dcbdb2c53c035a545c80dc7534398afd09f3e8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6ABC 9852 bytes