Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aad319fcf4b49aea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.3 KB Created: 2020-08-10 17:18:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0645f395f8d7ba9f96ed766bed22b176 SHA-1: a71b48e555484850bd6d78f93ca87defb0dc2a64 SHA-256: aad319fcf4b49aea3eebf54ee13c6db64592f412e7df51d56a27e912d605acd8
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains the same redirector URL. The primary attack pattern involves redirecting the user to malicious infrastructure.

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=design+process+in+architecture+from+concept+to+completion+pdf
    • http://files.thetastingspoon.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379718/fivipoxoveven.pdf
    • http://files.alexandriahansen.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680932/5608290.pdf
    • http://files.tangledwebbroots.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969580/nifevizisukepizogo.pdf
    • http://files.50-50-50challenge.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872087/filomizape.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3105/1931/files/manual_of_aphasia_and_aphasia_therapy_3rd_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6255/0940/files/zasidazerenazo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0814/8127/files/21415051471.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5083/5876/files/xotode.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7035/6632/files/tewuz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4323/2661/files/canzonetta_spagnuola_rossini.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7601/8585/files/maytag_centennial_washer_repair_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9437/6605/files/zibulumu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6735/7846/files/sanunojokefakapinemikiji.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0409/9735/files/luzorugodugotulita.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0097/7829/files/54924687703.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_off0000609c.bin
644a3978996ffb24d497813be9dce588743356254bbc9fe5c231d981a7de1a48
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x609C 5568 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007352.bin
2d4a02105b625024ff9d4126acc605e1ffe76bc7d171ff7e8e58ee39eb2e5eb1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7352 7148 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000086b4.bin
a08b776a9ac538cfc48c543426dd1146a9fa34014479402ab0c4cf9adca70b18
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x86B4 10824 bytes