Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9de0a5819b3fff89…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.7 KB Created: 2020-09-16 23:42:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a47248155db2c3012e8cf150186951f0 SHA-1: 9696cb1fb298a02c7b3f6a12d0b60c6df10c6521 SHA-256: 9de0a5819b3fff89c37e02ef13ae2df7a8ab3dd45d58f9f64543323e37838a2b
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, including one to a known malicious redirector (ttraff.link) and a large number of links to external PDFs hosted on various domains. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text suggesting it is a 'Classic blacksmithing guide', which is likely a lure. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, and the presence of a link farm indicates an attempt to distribute malicious content or engage in SEO poisoning.

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.link/wix?keyword=classic+blacksmithing+guide
    • http://files.infinitecreative.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969663/a1864548e400.pdf
    • http://muzex.sankofaeducationservices.net/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071164/e084eae6a.pdf
    • http://bamos.missdayteaches.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874493/5216920.pdf
    • http://nimet.musicaturing.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813855/durobem-dologoxowufed-xikunaxoxabume.pdf
    • https://fb55f095-af3c-4161-8d44-8968aa81118c.filesusr.com/ugd/3f1130_55854ada35fb4523b12f673d381d5487.pdf?index=true
    • https://ac2a886e-0256-4bb0-9d0d-57bb8c8d3e16.filesusr.com/ugd/ad2ade_bf17925772be40d394d17dfe234a7314.pdf?index=true
    • https://d863f6e8-44c9-49b8-bfb8-3d7b1f113ef1.filesusr.com/ugd/fe83c3_62d145eeebe9418cbfad72138899338b.pdf?index=true
    • https://da4f5a7a-2818-4a74-8954-946bc40bf40d.filesusr.com/ugd/771ea4_e14f69eec25748119151e745ba824459.pdf?index=true
    • https://d3279fb3-52a7-4d23-987f-4ebdb249a25d.filesusr.com/ugd/76aeb6_8d98152984e14d31813fcb867935a248.pdf?index=true
    • https://e8790b80-b953-4fe7-9f50-079e7cce3648.filesusr.com/ugd/de3d83_62b89ab179de404fa9595160bc21fcc6.pdf?index=true
    • https://e2a741c9-80ad-43c5-8bb5-c01352fb9713.filesusr.com/ugd/98857b_fb1bc98a6bd749d4a1e7f6851d4440b3.pdf?index=true
    • https://f25a5d76-8c48-4312-b36c-5b6a9e87a823.filesusr.com/ugd/8bf3fc_76a1bf6b05454dfeb8a2b2304d110e25.pdf?index=true
    • 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_off00007d2c.bin
1b0b6a7b54f8ef5426f08e51267c240d19b4d0d49766b77119178dca7b257b6b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D2C 5364 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008f3f.bin
362b26d6009edd84ff7c2b4c988bf1f37c8988bd93bc4e310c23280e14902207
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8F3F 10104 bytes