Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a670f3ae91313781…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.6 KB Created: 2020-08-08 23:36:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c00dffb2026bb76152f2d0b92cc71821 SHA-1: f07417a95b4a452d6307f2b707e27cfe0ab038c6 SHA-256: a670f3ae91313781d9a3f4e325fe7399c07df340110f7468096fcb39952305fb
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=cell+organelle+function+quiz+pdf'. Another heuristic indicates a PDF link farm, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and other benign-looking URLs, likely as part of a 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.ru/pify?keyword=cell+organelle+function+quiz+pdf
    • http://xofafiraf.3lasadu.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069934/8364785.pdf
    • http://files.thrivelakecounty.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740050/genefusedej-totamovagos-jejowitopovofi.pdf
    • http://files.kpuhra.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775853/reretipowogatus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8735/4270/files/the_assassination_of_jesse_james.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5729/9097/files/lidofaved.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1498/7674/files/1148645220.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2571/0756/files/zomopigepoxewasezinuvapox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/14985018959.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6142/5814/files/league_of_legends_logs.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4329/9232/files/22698748880.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4116/9303/files/batamotavipinorak.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9535/7595/files/wenifomapirilutifamidiza.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3562/3578/files/mabizitidijarufoluwudin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0645/9029/files/52566958319.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9613/7111/files/aspersoras_agricolas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6372/0613/files/hernia_inguinalis_adalah.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_off00004ac0.bin
f5a951d595c8c3643f118a60f93a04240b0195529ccf2bb73ad60477939bd6ba
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4AC0 5224 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005c95.bin
ea4c5437392b1641e6dd43eaad82a1c9f527a482ba3498614d5c26617e962da0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C95 9848 bytes