Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af51594d2369ff0b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.4 KB Created: 2020-09-03 02:13:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 03086ddc39371b4cb4b948fe359e5ac9 SHA-1: 26b54f858c42d91fa6d799b69fc65223e924ad6b SHA-256: af51594d2369ff0be44484cf81cef0334c63cac34cdad2903bb20899aa18341e
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, a technique often used to create link farms for SEO manipulation or to obscure malicious destinations. One of the primary links, 'https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=proform+600+le+elliptical+trainer+reviews', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, reinforcing its role in the attack.

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/wix?keyword=proform+600+le+elliptical+trainer+reviews
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5693/1751/files/33987396275.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2469/4942/files/doxujuduzukogis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7328/9888/files/lonazefafun.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8a419d_57eb010ad815402f9316e30fd306d500.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/917232_c698b64a71dc4bf09aa725daf446baa1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/227d0f_ba2ead5f1eb54dea9fc3407fe8ed4bca.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/912de2_dc7f0b005cf3448bb75f483041c939ee.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b88e3d_7663377b7bcd43628c508f77617bd0cd.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5672/6170/files/gasawivididugumezodado.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1816/5144/files/30922647274.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/xasojikunu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3880/2073/files/67211236830.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/
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/227d0f_ba2ead5f1eb54dea9

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007458.bin
09c06f0b4cf4bd77d607252404dfe7452d34c9fe472ad5e7f4f0c27da1aeeb9b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7458 6424 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008439.bin
e6157499f95d6b7a8b8a6cb4cacb528f859ceda2975498f451a4241b7c87d6f2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8439 5612 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009747.bin
7af64ab9872338e037128916ca8a94ffd6e990775fc39c73af087e825c58acf7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9747 10260 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0000ba89.bin
36f0f7c847a3d257bca3513ae5362ff552e89fccc363f2ec096b83b555007b24
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA89 16148 bytes