Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9cbe5be7740a74b1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.4 KB Created: 2020-08-04 08:43:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b534505d7d14b35ad2db8d7ad57c9fa4 SHA-1: b70d10493b265e0872107af1dff1361d286bf7eb SHA-256: 9cbe5be7740a74b1d8106c769213c55a8301bf118472d6e1459e2289226811ba
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=isaiah+berlin+four+essays+on+liberty+pdf'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, likely for further exploitation or phishing. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to obscure the malicious redirector. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct payload delivery mechanisms.

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/pify?keyword=isaiah+berlin+four+essays+on+liberty+pdf
    • http://files.usasubs.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681824/6678686.pdf
    • http://files.lutheranchurch-redbluff.org/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303351/suzorazukexukiren.pdf
    • http://files.bychoicewellness.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739027/48edf96bb4b.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8612/7009/files/blue_lily_lily_blue.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0453/2648/files/52630057861.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/xezunegudowafosixezuvi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7303/6697/files/animated_discord_emojis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8891/1267/files/77624976776.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6844/8152/files/bimawu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6383/6834/files/96126238850.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/44411244229.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7702/3384/files/skyrim_legendary_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4781/3269/files/xiwuvepivaratizal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4921/3349/files/reduce_screen_tearing.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5307/2022/files/xufepesasepori.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2538/3073/files/mozojemetobabesozukate.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8381/7375/files/84720875928.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_off0000743f.bin
412767a4668431e505b6c9d6111377fd76e75068e38a0ed0806424c832d2b3ca
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x743F 5308 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008647.bin
4190226bf441658eddbd9066b332bfab0e8caa79b849cf02f7f16506953a1969
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8647 10040 bytes