Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a190c3aff38b79ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.6 KB Created: 2020-07-31 06:25:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b441aa92ece36a4c23d4620990a0b834 SHA-1: 874dd39710f5448cf8e655cd5c803ffcec7a1972 SHA-256: a190c3aff38b79cea3843843ac00782a1400ad89c724ac4bd93dcc94e4e89ffb
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded external links, with one heuristic specifically identifying it as a 'PDF SEO Link Farm'. The primary redirector URL, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=nature+deficit+disorder+pdf', is flagged as malicious. The ML classifier also strongly indicates maliciousness. This suggests the document's purpose is to lure users to malicious sites, likely for phishing or malware delivery.

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=nature+deficit+disorder+pdf
    • http://files.littlenecknews.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738753/7878996.pdf
    • http://files.mcmjanitorial.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406356/5b2cce2e6e7ba.pdf
    • http://files.happyhousepreschool.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969742/8655097.pdf
    • http://files.steveayottemusic.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380600/d50fc.pdf
    • http://files.teachcruachan.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969190/dajitiwupetitu-newelawurejot-geniwibadiru-zonelenifuwi.pdf
    • http://files.steveayottemusic.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5689/0013/files/lepilobebotonafupot.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6309/9040/files/butilupaxolipikobe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7664/9124/files/jigedo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/16949815227.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4506/0762/files/53277864769.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5438/3782/files/fesazibumutike.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9291/7924/files/lonob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/vinupagudesezubinu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5119/6314/files/55334306433.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9846/2624/files/gumigunuwadenaxawozudolal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4521/5656/files/26929686381.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/54440827626.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9074/8316/files/58050575401.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_off0000727c.bin
d860d1932e6bb5c83dcc4bca4c523af98d32d731d47ae697d077ad6a1be6ab68
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x727C 4860 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008319.bin
4e9762b50966f9cc43e0a8baca87b3528d9d52bb3cc6b4bd317a3e69b2a798d8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8319 9948 bytes