Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b76766d36a3267a9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.9 KB Created: 2020-08-01 15:14:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: be823d3449a0fc924177943f74fb0c69 SHA-1: bcf92f5255957e03bb98a7b45d0c87a1cd076999 SHA-256: b76766d36a3267a9d4c7bed735e2ece09f162f40b2486b9cae0b63b98720f33d
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a high density of external links, many pointing to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation or traffic redirection. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=skyrim+legendary+edition+strategy+guide+pdf'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to this URL and other Shopify links, reinforcing the lure. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

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=skyrim+legendary+edition+strategy+guide+pdf
    • http://files.djmarshallgroup.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398323/depapufexiw.pdf
    • http://files.jacidepuydt.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398573/14c82cefa3acfae.pdf
    • http://files.forexminority.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871433/b9598d50a7.pdf
    • http://files.oneilljamesschool.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740524/539f13a13.pdf
    • http://files.nolartslearningcenter.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873820/libinanaxefij-lavojozu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4597/6224/files/bezika.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0379/5865/files/renamedox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1234/9334/files/61526983683.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5531/7149/files/40906056764.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2897/1681/files/37544605683.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7985/0398/files/43630188116.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6821/9799/files/nixozusuf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4368/2469/files/77765031863.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7259/3832/files/36537545280.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9842/1913/files/fatugonilodi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2761/1295/files/99694993963.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6971/9196/files/vusafosakitozafij.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_off00006491.bin
9e044a6d9d1acdfd3547e0e1611ed9ae074d96e8b9d689eae75a4d307ce81f71
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6491 5628 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000077ac.bin
f52e759f998b777fb303390227277e5e59d281ab517b6ed35947f961ec264a22
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77AC 10240 bytes