Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b55b3f359aa792fb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.6 KB Created: 2020-08-07 21:03:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 981771f6288e9a4b0bbd5582b2291631 SHA-1: 90d70da623c2e4fcce8c6d4f3361de49f949d8d0 SHA-256: b55b3f359aa792fbb85c8889dd288a078f445adcfcc0d192baee9690ce0dc66c
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by multiple critical heuristics indicating malicious redirector links and a link farm. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=asteroseismology+aerts+pdf, which is likely used to obscure the final destination of the attack. The document body contains obfuscated text and numerous links, many of which point to benign Shopify domains, but also several to unknown domains that could host further malicious content.

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/pify?keyword=asteroseismology+aerts+pdf
    • http://files.valleycrafthavenandsupplies.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380485/17466698037507.pdf
    • http://vegemelov.veohtu.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606201/fixasanawo_loxiluzo_nekiralerowe_kasadixonuk.pdf
    • http://files.paulashleyfowlerphotography.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775027/8706118.pdf
    • http://tejox.umweltschutzverein.de/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739204/5983810.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2776/7206/files/advanced_spatial_analysis_the_casa_book_of_gis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1550/4029/files/9781050597.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8180/1629/files/78156104778.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7140/5222/files/mujolanedagix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3241/1298/files/50275671689.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8004/8037/files/correlative_conjunctions_worksheets_with_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/3286/6979/files/il_compagno_cesare_pavese.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7928/5401/files/rajudoxiget.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7145/4883/files/authoritarianism_definition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0963/8553/files/tables_of_houses_astrology.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3197/0471/files/249293217.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8136/6693/files/pifavipurezibu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1557/5464/files/kefetuxijidukupiga.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00008682.bin
5ed93ef3d2b85850abbef54a0a110f8ff6ae67e5b4f3ebe254da4775f58ff13f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8682 5452 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009900.bin
65cbcca696770b0e114fbf10561fd4a622a0d21000e70654631a84ad00a2e65b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9900 10676 bytes