Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa2fc02af65c57f1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

57.6 KB Created: 2020-09-03 10:07:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b1f90d49fb170f8b717f7db43b981421 SHA-1: 78de584dffef1a067d5882086b90beb8d78b5ee5 SHA-256: aa2fc02af65c57f171ddf016e38f6c2ea29fce4fae3ce5955851bed5de2ca91d
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple critical heuristics for containing malicious redirector links and a large number of external PDF links, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme. The primary malicious URL identified is 'https://ttraff.club/pify?keyword=im+alive+song'. The document body contains garbled text but also includes the malicious URL and several Shopify-hosted PDF links, reinforcing the link farm heuristic. No scripts were extracted, but the sheer volume of links points towards a delivery mechanism for further malicious content.

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.club/pify?keyword=im+alive+song
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0650/8701/files/git_not_currently_on_any_branch.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5060/5461/files/digizuwej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3493/4429/files/dusovubi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6070/6971/files/soral.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1459/4464/files/jogapixijenejedagif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0714/8185/files/lobster_tail_pastry.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4066/0895/files/cardiopulmonary_physical_therapy_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5778/3718/files/array_concept_in_c_language.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d54300_22f489a57a454c0b993bd7ff60974d66.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f55bec_6ea0ff2acc3942bfa553cc432ecff35e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c8d394_c0da4824b71a4d258b0a2418e6eb6fec.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0d9a50_fb953fe26292456082fd88d938a9a6af.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4484/8295/files/medepo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7899/1513/files/bezagowimamibu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8762/5369/files/92329810178.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0945/6803/files/spread_spectrum_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8923/1000/files/expos_agriculture_biologique.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_off0000838c.bin
6f1f294331bf6f6ee35666e316ad6172f9a8a05748c9841b75ff1009d9fd4dfc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x838C 4908 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009431.bin
95c95b0dcf318dc21c3744d281fec32d4a38580e5709e13caf97eaadcd4fb44e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9431 15552 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000c485.bin
2cfc97915d250804213c9b0e6ad261e0979cd38371fb36ec9174dea58a153a3e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC485 16120 bytes