Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 997567ab0331b5d0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.3 KB Created: 2020-08-30 18:27:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 001dabb98a0fad17fa57b1721e6689f1 SHA-1: 242e07ee0acbbc0d723f30e7673a98fa2943bd93 SHA-256: 997567ab0331b5d0fe519d9f88dc9c1797857a074e09d2c610b8b758ccfa19ab
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, with many pointing to Shopify domains hosting other PDF files. One specific URL, 'https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=c%25C3%25B3mo+cancelar+mi+patrocinio+de+World', is flagged as a malicious redirector. This suggests a tactic of using a link farm or SEO manipulation to distribute malicious content or redirect users to phishing sites. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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/wix?keyword=c%25C3%25B3mo+cancelar+mi+patrocinio+de+World
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7180/7381/files/sam_hyde_ted_talk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7058/7029/files/tufizedafonik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7913/1551/files/voladenugurabo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7588/7523/files/outlook_out_of_office_holiday_template.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3188/8035/files/ccna_sybex_200_125.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4853/2128/files/97715956572.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2052/5476/files/ditepopiguli.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3282/8314/files/10190001996.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4188/2265/files/veteloxebofokanil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7388/7649/files/neopixel_color_chart.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0032/3478/files/importance_of_c_programming_language.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4847/6570/files/doxirutoxamuzorug.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/de3d83_f9856ddbd9284cc090bd8a2fc0cfa45d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_64ccf810d82c4e95b00fd7b0f7cf879f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c8a981_78bacd7251114af4abeeb664b1cc883f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5e8de6_677b056378a04b9c9c401736c2d457b2.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_off000063a3.bin
fa4e587c2eb4090f4631645a88e6d1acf760c52db384412527be34b6c83d93bb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63A3 5192 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000074f0.bin
9822f54c2b6db3de906221c2f134f7275df172b204726988ceebf566d37824f7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74F0 11388 bytes