Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 996980471aa69089…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.7 KB Created: 2020-08-01 22:33:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a924c1bcfe6d37d91ec3c188fddb8008 SHA-1: 7b6697159b79ccb2c36899ba1e2d88d4c57b1bb0 SHA-256: 996980471aa69089f68cbe98ea7535da2ae9cd7b428165592b1d1a467c9d5332
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=ai+mai+mi'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous links to external PDFs hosted on domains like cdn.shopify.com. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body contains garbled text but includes the malicious URL, suggesting an attempt to lure the user to a malicious site.

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=ai+mai+mi
    • http://files.onebeautifulmess.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776609/312832a.pdf
    • http://files.capsulate.life/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482832/sepajetekava.pdf
    • http://files.allprorepairnc.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164260/d7a3d7408d.pdf
    • http://files.vrockers.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164519/1565337.pdf
    • http://files.springhousegrille.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775557/rivelunow.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8278/4676/files/dotifakupexidilaserejure.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4257/0402/files/gazevubopukidopani.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9165/6864/files/duguzilodisamiteke.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2995/4721/files/tobaguratixukavunu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3983/3767/files/rilizo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5496/4637/files/95184414808.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6443/5612/files/83132797085.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9572/8029/files/gekubupibovika.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7309/3288/files/wumalem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6714/6397/files/binuj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6910/4540/files/zewunuxinimurefololabitar.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_off0000629a.bin
b86c342abb63300d2e58f92b6c429d6d3945fdbfbf469f8b4204a79a7dd33eed
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x629A 13804 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008ebb.bin
9b11ca91791201d14538e84073f4d7396130418b141644cf6d2d5681adf49c43
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8EBB 4516 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009e01.bin
36f1a0e50434b015941557691d6477e71700121d5050d3216d880b16911f6519
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9E01 10100 bytes