Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9afa0452aaa3a897…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.2 KB Created: 2020-08-23 05:43:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 047e1586199a974def29be8d0174b6d5 SHA-1: e0d1f95c035966e1dd04093f71239c21d40334bc SHA-256: 9afa0452aaa3a897160ed32899eda8fade1abeb3bbf2a839c59fadbb9a522931
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=manualidades+navide%25C3%25B1as+faciles+paso+a+paso'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to a potentially harmful site. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to distribute malicious content. No scripts were extracted, and the document body is heavily obfuscated, but the malicious redirector link is a strong indicator of 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.cc/pify?keyword=manualidades+navide%25C3%25B1as+faciles+paso+a+paso
    • http://files.apple-itchyfeet.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776061/risujom.pdf
    • http://files.russlevin.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681213/266b2fd04d7b14.pdf
    • http://files.learningandwriting.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814050/xepopikusewajijin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3902/3526/files/dilink_di_524.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9980/0217/files/51279588217.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3174/9031/files/ctet_2020_paper_1_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6704/7077/files/9449756975.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7072/3998/files/quantitative_critical_appraisal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0041/9736/files/86863992812.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7673/0533/files/in_vitro_antidiabetic_activity_of_plant_extract.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3926/8774/files/posurebilurufofudapuke.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4211/9592/files/bullet_point_discord.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/6948/9560/files/farewell_report_card_comments.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8510/3255/files/72893505987.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2816/0420/files/d._h._m._s._doctor_full_form.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_off00008f2e.bin
4a21d14c9b33f7e7f77f9ce91f1159001b139a16aa8b5b1380225d8ca149aa2b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8F2E 5328 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a12b.bin
e1384c6f745ec1f696a93759f2be410cddda48a4d93397b01db56607f4c4420a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA12B 11216 bytes