Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a91c2d05523fb27c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.9 KB Created: 2020-08-05 01:29:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a1ff31a99851af01301dd68c546ef01b SHA-1: 611b45bd41ed52b35e1bdd1367614a22087372b1 SHA-256: a91c2d05523fb27c5da67f4327025b42f71344da405c4d5a2f24282780aaaa99
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=budget+sheet+template+pdf'. This indicates an attempt to redirect the user to a malicious site, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, reinforcing its role as a lure. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to increase visibility.

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=budget+sheet+template+pdf
    • http://files.petaloudatherapies.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871424/7710717.pdf
    • http://files.tonyottenauthor.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453924/847da69e.pdf
    • http://files.akinvogg.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437276/lojafigutiz.pdf
    • http://files.tonyottenauthor.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453924/847da69e
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2841/4618/files/89012630984.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6773/4176/files/zulawelabesopaxakalef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/zipepatijexozuzazes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5552/1695/files/baripepuxosisipokemifuzeg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0684/4315/files/brahms_requiem_soprano_solo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1030/8765/files/63446798878.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2568/6951/files/tifutedoboviro.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9463/8749/files/bubivetobenajulesanirujin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9291/1007/files/79237405077.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7130/5896/files/7335744960.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9241/0525/files/le_dialogisme.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4252/9695/files/39672168255.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6278/8245/files/92589356748.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_off0000833f.bin
81fcdaf04f8d2179d3ad909968de764deaecbc848ec10484a0a642aa17583b0d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x833F 5408 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009588.bin
40573553cd2ac49d7840f6cde30fe5a352facc93f2475193d86a504da18b3997
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9588 10824 bytes