Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f5fa4984647a53d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

64.3 KB Created: 2020-08-24 20:42:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 99d279639bc9549a9b9ba1672bb07a8a SHA-1: 01fd016d3827a91aefaaac277192ae29cb8e0d5f SHA-256: 9f5fa4984647a53de11fc471487a3c96ab9c9727d61e6cad9427f3162209f30f
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=say+thank+you+in+korean+informal. The document body, though partially obfuscated, contains this URL and other PDF links, indicating the primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious infrastructure.

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=say+thank+you+in+korean+informal
    • http://maveresuz.cornerstonecowboychurch.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738765/vopovumadawamaf.pdf
    • http://rebikasez.baieslings.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302842/a6a58cc.pdf
    • http://files.worldwomen.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775145/5442416.pdf
    • http://wujatoj.rshsalc.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969204/detigorap-gugopoxuzorekeb-sixurupixurez.pdf
    • http://files.finchleyraiders.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453919/1189110.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0491/9971/files/barbara_cartland_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2328/5920/files/19390514373.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1691/1010/files/19451524223.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8286/5047/files/62844763523.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9194/1781/files/topopuxofotoxafujopeguju.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4166/8770/files/pexozojagi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5064/7204/files/10027165348.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8699/3813/files/6050508064.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9164/8929/files/bb_spirit_tone.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4396/0485/files/performance_management_system_of_infosys.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5197/3794/files/simple_java_game_codes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3347/5737/files/comic_template_ks2.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0935/1575/files/raferabolinodulezomud.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2182/0326/files/bofasi.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00008926.bin
7e152b93f0d4cb3e905d1af78b5648b5cdd4e1ab256b1595a30b96350cb0fb74
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8926 18240 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000bf27.bin
75b952399ede7b0c583eda8159d45939460d50b39e67b9931d3679ff068e05e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF27 5100 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000d04f.bin
2342e6b7f6ebd63d6a8209a4091c00578224bd6e629ae38c7e9b121c953ca769
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD04F 10432 bytes