Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b1fe815a9b75ba57…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.8 KB Created: 2020-09-01 21:47:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a2e63616ea88bef5bf228a5cebe67964 SHA-1: fe4d316739c0de3545e6c5aad9a71377efb756c3 SHA-256: b1fe815a9b75ba577218a4b781295ea0242dcba5d3633961b707cedbbbb51839
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files, indicating a link farm for SEO manipulation or to obscure malicious destinations. One of the primary links, 'https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=higgledy+garden+bee+meadow+guide', is flagged as a known malicious redirector. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to contain the same URLs found in the heuristics.

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=higgledy+garden+bee+meadow+guide
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ac72e0_33691d50ee58458da8cd5a9bead1ea81.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e4ff69_88d93a2cbb8e4452bc789e18419d5807.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/67e251_71a90b283b10416fb845f94acc0009f6.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3549/0461/files/gilepixazowaxi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1610/0776/files/an_astrologer_s_day_summary_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4107/1016/files/brutus_aet2_password_cracker_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5549/5833/files/36589394459.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/18f527_e4898d1ec0ab464a80f08e398fde8ec3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/71fd01_abef332480aa4dc393979e678ed93d75.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/345929_d42fb3894c6b423c9cad9dd08be5e24b.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6304/9376/files/35338337636.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/51268900441.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0753/1414/files/62823699953.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8716/7649/files/burejivuzuvitukovu.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_off000067cf.bin
5e84254f97afa765b662a6bb45bee31e93f1353836dc1a42c0f49c4d3388e8ab
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67CF 5064 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000078ec.bin
78567d7bc283d16766804fc1c94de1e68269e3ff77e9a87bf996cf4708201b53
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78EC 10244 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009c09.bin
ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9C09 4324 bytes