Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 afb66bf7a23d5b51…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.7 KB Created: 2020-08-11 23:26:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a8dd99d3524ec4111cd1d48bdd12ff98 SHA-1: 0f981fd004f134ce737bfef52a28569c47339ffe SHA-256: afb66bf7a23d5b518af913c99f75cb21544afd8430f3e3f85fac6788b5ad5b44
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, many of which point to a redirector service. The primary malicious link is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=present+simple+unscramble+sentences+exercises+pdf, which likely leads to a malicious payload. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to this URL and other PDF links, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute malware. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and link analysis strongly indicate a malicious redirector 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.ru/pify?keyword=present+simple+unscramble+sentences+exercises+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.nerdybirdieapparel.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383998/jututobab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.stpatsyouth.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454221/86038b16dc.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.atlanticartgallery.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776661/zesiruvowox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinidap.yogashak.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874359/zepetukokififipikem.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.2424nfederalhwy.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814030/2228314.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7228/0981/files/liwatajevebowelijemozo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7328/2983/files/daughter_of_destiny_benazir_bhutto.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7005/3784/files/xaxupatitapu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5104/8357/files/65119548045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4907/4336/files/20289387623.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7836/6885/files/36016104650.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5354/5632/files/pamujekuburonazazegi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/wanojexabe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4646/9793/files/anakin_skywalker_midichlorian_count.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0550/1852/files/60069057282.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004734.bin
d0846a9ead6505f1e4a116a8597ee9a611e6fd2df5785fdc82cbf0f70e8e3769
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4734 5508 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000059c8.bin
f4977b05d76a27a9dcfadab49bc2e920a50cd4768ba8bf329e7f155e61aa4c19
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x59C8 10204 bytes