Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b2981e7ed9eadbcc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.5 KB Created: 2020-08-14 02:13:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 974f8b93acc8520b72e31034030b1ab5 SHA-1: 01da74fe91805b7c082c4487dc6e89dd937722b0 SHA-256: b2981e7ed9eadbccb6aa309b57aff57bcf2b2a42f14b36c572f8776d77957762
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.001 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a high number of external links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggesting an attempt at SEO poisoning or link farming. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.com/wb?keyword=iranian%20languages%20pdf'. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The document body is heavily obfuscated but contains the redirector URL, reinforcing the malicious intent.

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/wb?keyword=iranian%20languages%20pdf
    • http://files.michaeljamesvocals.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379111/nofikab.pdf
    • http://files.vickijansma.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453276/xopidotisema.pdf
    • http://files.gaslogbbq.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382841/lilivelibovem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0636/9703/files/prizerebel_hack_points_generator_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2517/0595/files/gekujokebofo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8879/6065/files/bebebokewabotefudawusu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2679/2093/files/71221555535.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5398/9534/files/49109123911.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8089/9989/files/92155036652.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3377/8597/files/36816163453.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9110/7752/files/widegugopekaviwusitutuvo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9400/7191/files/neopets_cheap_books.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/66541571973.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7794/9848/files/pusatutelewavumuku.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9122/0887/files/magewidavom.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_off0000ad3c.bin
d78d5e9c37c8f3a41d060e46df9ef29e9eb63d88d2b8322cc6b13c65384a4af3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAD3C 5148 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000bec7.bin
1c5364f4b25b68f56c5da885e5fc25ecfcc07c5bb9d1b643a7f3cf99b603c947
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBEC7 19836 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f67f.bin
84e20c81c303cda4dd5c9dd3aad0018ff6a4f1417ad8af6fb4a41711a0ca8b47
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF67F 16320 bytes