Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a4a69dc7e81ad506…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.4 KB Created: 2020-08-09 13:22:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c1223ef1e5dc88d0cc5be739238587a8 SHA-1: ed104ca5f686827609ebe2971ea01f52dab867f9 SHA-256: a4a69dc7e81ad50641aa449527b38565cfe38afd56bf75802b87d98823d16790
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=asthma+action+plan+pdf+editable'. This URL is likely part of a phishing or malware distribution chain. The document also exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded links to external PDFs, many hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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=asthma+action+plan+pdf+editable
    • http://files.caw.co.nz/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437956/93524b2d.pdf
    • http://files.shearserenitysalon.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383553/53b9878d6b0f11.pdf
    • http://files.dylanlipke.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682070/nokogituwizox_remate_xipuwotesukes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4104/7206/files/rufagebubefamuzojefejen.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6454/0825/files/sonuwobodavonufipe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6955/4332/files/65029431757.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0860/4829/files/miwox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5023/6064/files/52147741153.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9977/5381/files/24700265181.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3912/9751/files/65410830200.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0099/5741/files/sifunerevobilepabunoruvi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2216/3876/files/86212148639.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8634/6408/files/54879431113.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5860/9817/files/labalepusatamubobituv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/0574/1989/files/nanostructures_for_antimicrobial_therapy.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_off000073fd.bin
a358f4c691201c37321fe3810529052df6e5d0c9a0f3eca22ca6ab9ea8a38904
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73FD 13184 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009e81.bin
ee17ca02e180308b20ea4af52ba1d046ce7feac50ae56813cf7023b6752ac449
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9E81 5428 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000b0d0.bin
3f9e9882dc53812e7010a1c43817d7e38c2d819ed4f68387d46a83206bbe296d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB0D0 10308 bytes