Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9bb01bc482f41ae4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.3 KB Created: 2020-08-10 12:51:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 05aa1697eb46134699aa2829828293d6 SHA-1: 871bcd7f58687f405bb6bca70c5fa893983d6273 SHA-256: 9bb01bc482f41ae4a3bd8fe6af1b74443344ecdcfb53129bd491b5e0e6144d80
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file was flagged by multiple critical heuristics for containing malicious redirector links and a large link farm, indicating a probable SEO manipulation or phishing attempt. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=cardiff+city+centre+map+pdf, which is likely used to redirect users to further malicious content. While no scripts were extracted, the sheer volume of embedded links and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest a malicious intent, likely to lure users to external sites.

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.ru/pify?keyword=cardiff+city+centre+map+pdf
    • http://jazagivu.rampantoutdoor.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775795/6250106.pdf
    • http://files.gunnersquillshedgehogs.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408117/be7e3dd9a.pdf
    • http://files.tlc-travels.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738993/rugosazevesuz_tebawumujonalov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0032/3486/files/vovibekumarep.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1888/7073/files/59480783046.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0608/2717/files/pulexaxik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0441/2583/files/55334022053.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5603/7017/files/tujusomefukisowamesudaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2181/1362/files/1990668549.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2640/7843/files/2162196227.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0346/0259/files/maria_west_side_story_piano.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2892/3046/files/61722269429.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1682/1672/files/fefuzewopuwuw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0426/4602/files/zedonisimomifipifito.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2936/4885/files/56991990713.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6768/6558/files/wordly_wise_3000_book_8_answer_key_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2412/9946/files/96614650000.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_off000057d0.bin
4da340cb1639594e2e483f265c8ae701edae92eb256dd09c1a98d421bff921a7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x57D0 5096 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006917.bin
df8841d7988f28b647099495c262afe48ae2122fda60218a1c5d80d09d4223e9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6917 15208 bytes