Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab3f61258c394f21…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.3 KB Created: 2020-08-17 04:16:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c1cd2d6698486be3a1bbeed4e9c20015 SHA-1: f55a79d770fc1830d1a874305ec8ba7d26920273 SHA-256: ab3f61258c394f2193ffb968a609d49a585ba4a56ddec219690e0e8b83edbc0a
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 'ttraff.cc'. This URL is used in conjunction with a large number of other PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The primary malicious URL is 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=dural+arteriovenous+malformation+and+aneurysm', which is designed to redirect the user to further malicious content. The document body itself is largely garbled but contains the same medical-related keyword found in the malicious URL, likely as 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.cc/pify?keyword=dural+arteriovenous+malformation+and+aneurysm
    • http://files.barrons-women.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452929/vurosigosugedijikiw.pdf
    • http://dopogaw.glitterins.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407498/bapafuzufuv.pdf
    • http://files.thepenguinpatch.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813997/1183800.pdf
    • http://files.psychotherapy121.org/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303068/8131375.pdf
    • http://files.glamourenterprisesllc.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874474/5640819.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4571/6129/files/96049536309.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9113/1557/files/6580529267.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4837/8280/files/sorisufivuwubomogagiruxo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5534/8888/files/binalorerorojunesuvafukat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/moxudenolaruxorurafugi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5452/8677/files/atkins_phases.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6451/6005/files/gokunu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4310/1591/files/poxifekexabuxiwifutu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/zosakasebiribo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9441/6290/files/aura_by_carlos_fuentes_english.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2259/7796/files/kajejibovivogumotewuvi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9427/0371/files/zifot.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_off00006829.bin
435fcbb15dc7e64c5ab5ffbdef892dfd9e3bedff4b009867a3f60f286bea67d3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6829 5212 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000079de.bin
cc0b5d37df2efe1143955a2e7f18f3040d06d6c8cd4210e9281c1ed32d9fb4c3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79DE 9964 bytes