Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a88fa8c5e0dd3f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.8 KB Created: 2020-08-08 17:00:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ad0f6ab17c957cc740c68917ff6ac333 SHA-1: d3fed26e5203c05250c2049bff591aa4cc44c77a SHA-256: 9a88fa8c5e0dd3f0edc6c5f967d02c8883f17ec10454c934b341ec2ee7f4a213
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector (ttraff.cc). The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting it is a 'Bangalore press calendar august 2020 pdf', likely a lure. The heuristic 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' confirms the presence of a link to malicious infrastructure. The 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' heuristic indicates a large number of external links, many hosted on Shopify, likely to obscure the malicious redirector. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence.

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=bangalore+press+calendar+august+2020+pdf
    • http://files.alexferguson.co/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482944/nazag.pdf
    • http://files.michelletockyork.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406688/503884.pdf
    • http://files.stanfordamends.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681517/venusexezap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3329/7058/files/foxejuwasujexurexi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3694/2234/files/58415595665.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4233/2057/files/bharathiyar_songs_with_meanings_in_tamil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9093/4949/files/2343383740.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1830/5179/files/67946773506.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/57727452667.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2739/7797/files/neufert_architect_s_data_download_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/6072/7703/files/mapa_de_aracaju.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5857/7046/files/nesesizedukotibixu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2965/9797/files/72424169051.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4742/6965/files/28743554702.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3503/1712/files/phonics_lesson_plans_for_kindergarten.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7522/1144/files/mongodb_rename_field.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2940/5600/files/27812527269.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_off00006b8c.bin
d59d23799e13c86e7015406abbdc8170a96b77bb432ac167f2b2fc4d9e8e3ef6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B8C 5644 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007ed9.bin
26e27a6774057787dff61583c552949bf8a8444516eea05b82a6d7130b893725
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7ED9 10376 bytes