Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9e020d005f655854…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.0 KB Created: 2020-09-18 08:10:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b7372652d220a2d28d534b4977a1073d SHA-1: d9b0958dffc04a3dd271cd7e28b482077a3c690a SHA-256: 9e020d005f655854db1c5c3a2a58fb3a2ed5c229f68303a5aea115c1a0a58959
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple critical heuristics for containing malicious redirector links and a link farm. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The embedded links, such as 'https://ttraff.link/wix?keyword=a+christmas+memory+questions+and+answers', are likely designed to redirect users to phishing or malware distribution sites. No scripts were extracted, but the extensive linking suggests a social engineering lure.

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=a+christmas+memory+questions+and+answers
    • http://gogotabi.cpfcanada.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874276/renemuzesetotujive.pdf
    • http://gamofim.fitstudiotucson.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407572/ff17a199c84.pdf
    • http://pubunu.bluthbio.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606027/mokepasijire.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2915/8295/files/bacterial_biochemical_tests.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9003/5366/files/ziruwumiguduxuwu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/4147/8040/files/3141184116.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0378/1013/files/lulidovewowu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2707/7032/files/acdsee_photo_studio_2019_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8622/3262/files/xiwatoxeloxe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8094/0709/files/kifefexijukexazogux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7857/4490/files/sheriff_of_nottingham_promo_cards.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_off0000478b.bin
faeb1ddd1910637b835181c69775afca0b9f39570938fe3bdee7733b26d39cc9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x478B 5456 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000059fb.bin
7b2e810efdcc7770ea63039e0a3a532847dd077af6aac57a3a6bc005ebbee272
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x59FB 9848 bytes