Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae2cde36784e633d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

69.2 KB Created: 2020-07-29 12:00:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: bf566b69f84fccd1bf96ab0f065cbdc7 SHA-1: e7d48cb93872f0bf45844fa835b4d7386ddb9ab8 SHA-256: ae2cde36784e633d710c6e05a58498d7601a0750eaf6b1129edc026c957cab5a
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 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=bukhari+sharif+arabic+pdf'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous external links, including one to 'https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2577/4245/files/48177003524.pdf'. The ML classifier also flagged this PDF with high confidence. The document body is heavily obfuscated, preventing a clear understanding of its content, but the presence of malicious links strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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=bukhari+sharif+arabic+pdf
    • http://files.graceinwellsville.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406391/6676029.pdf
    • http://files.tuliptreatments.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740665/nidonuj_kadim.pdf
    • http://files.tawpuppies.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740838/vexixudatapatit_jarusumurirovoj_vezasevulona.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2577/4245/files/48177003524.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8841/2836/files/68745461353.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6487/7471/files/tusifumefuta.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6464/7077/files/ligepogekotaniwetul.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6845/7122/files/puwuves.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4387/1127/files/kizowipowulazenunabo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3720/3364/files/72067504182.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9896/4117/files/radasejivunoxovimujivik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2807/0052/files/1275660087.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8954/2809/files/sasaziwulebolozoleg.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
stream_008_off0000e125.bin
2ac3919f50482fc9e6ae0f9f3af71eba14d1c6107486e0f3f7aaa28c4486f457
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xE125 22292 bytes
font_00_sfnt_off0000acbe.bin
f59f9603b7d248b6aac62353c5aa83bfcb0436bfe37dbded8a99ac9d79d84442
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xACBE 4932 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000bd86.bin
1cc3dd76dd4b13f72eb56ba3b5f32dc955cdcc7dea4fe506d01c2543e346c3ec
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD86 10620 bytes