Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 99f8d89b15419dde…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.8 KB Created: 2020-08-05 12:08:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: aa3926cf418ef4838ad74ac1301ec24a SHA-1: 82274c8ad6d0cc11b0eabf2da0ace6d7c768b716 SHA-256: 99f8d89b15419dde4a61a26562f170bbf54b06e0d00793384d90f5193c5271d4
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, which is also present in the document body. The link directs to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=atrial+septal+defect+in+pregnancy+pdf', indicating a phishing or scam attempt. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm used for SEO poisoning or distributing malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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.cc/pify?keyword=atrial+septal+defect+in+pregnancy+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.openchristmasgreatyarmouth.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637257/a70d003.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.uniquepersonalstatements.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682039/7d844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xilafola.roamingbuffalo.us/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069934/1d3e5ae5cb5619d.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.bethecareerchange.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380181/ketakoluraxe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4669/9165/files/39170785316.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3966/0954/files/morph_mod_1._8._8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4296/3613/files/kuwizikesejatowarupozi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3161/6918/files/nuvasiw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9559/5938/files/dilonorese.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1274/2550/files/kurudukorufekamolafelev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/mabiwabupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5507/1900/files/neds_declassified_coconut_head.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6481/1935/files/bekotobesanamifekorozikan.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2368/7067/files/18835019089.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9763/7535/files/tidagadegiwuxive.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005e82.bin
216582ddbff622d23ed7a56507509440b6aff0716878b65282af960b0627bfe9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E82 5416 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007105.bin
d8de3b47b982ea40f387cd61ede9848eb78ddda16fe673cacd6e464adc4e6a6a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7105 9780 bytes