Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a078add9d946d1d0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.7 KB Created: 2020-08-02 16:06:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b5de44fb823a092f83ddb162a31c65b5 SHA-1: 0ac8f8566f23aa5cd9a39bc6390e3c16124de4c4 SHA-256: a078add9d946d1d0e68d8af2a1904ddf3efe93755a1091666c238ec3d03de069
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, a common technique for SEO poisoning or link farms. One of these links, https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=kagerou+theme+overlay, is identified as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body is heavily obfuscated and contains what appears to be junk data, but the presence of the malicious redirector URL is the primary indicator of malicious intent.

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=kagerou+theme+overlay
    • http://files.frenellesangalang.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814241/jijukonotusofaza.pdf
    • http://files.the59edsel.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378990/gavutuvejune.pdf
    • http://files.mcclainmatthewsinsurance.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409090/7232005.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8841/8718/files/gefunik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2123/6381/files/52145066313.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0426/2561/files/zemazovosawo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6113/2968/files/74795272981.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1396/3939/files/64669264923.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5681/6540/files/juwusabovisurowevateneg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2439/2087/files/kafejalumitazinobox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6224/7080/files/40090550420.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6360/6429/files/craigslist_ie_jobs.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7378/8321/files/xuvuzidizokarutim.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9536/7585/files/26630511910.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2778/4095/files/1386202600.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0034/7299/files/96958298590.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_off000060ff.bin
e9329c6a203aa80b6344fc5ce1f5d5ab5ed81ab6eeab0310a81a0e667221b610
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60FF 5052 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000721a.bin
5d04267466d479161fa8b5ec5005200acac6f9fd077469570aceee008476b047
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x721A 10016 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009497.bin
40362fbc9d771ad4ffebf23d851d0e608cbe5e910bc9c9578be8a04431091e8d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9497 16084 bytes