Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b7e8c77a521d5a9d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.6 KB Created: 2020-08-18 23:27:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ad5cb02d18ce4a386f6cff0c049fc2cf SHA-1: a5f963f026635f1ea2d5d6e29d1774762063b39c SHA-256: b7e8c77a521d5a9da0cca140c3ef126112cb40235b0dd86c34cd3fee8519ce34
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=incident+report+writing+training+video'. This URL is embedded within the document body, disguised as training material. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous external links, many hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be social engineering via a deceptive link.

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=incident+report+writing+training+video
    • http://febiro.glamourcosmeticsofficial.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382486/jogibemasik.pdf
    • http://files.learntosailswf.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775825/3392922.pdf
    • http://lafusa.jillianmichaelsvoice.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874123/supavoneguzuxad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/lejozusuxawunulimedobina.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5670/8254/files/84363747476.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7375/7603/files/adobe_premiere_color_presets_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/5893/2381/files/pokesonuno.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3998/8648/files/menijez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8120/3861/files/43376415034.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4732/7646/files/vanononezilibotugajilexe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5438/3782/files/fipevinuxusozusilutu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8451/3440/files/30145805929.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2426/6917/files/aprilia_srv_850_service_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4980/3166/files/66189986469.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8611/1137/files/vixira.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5957/6986/files/robijo.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_off00006577.bin
e837e3ce325ddb84f141153806c1605dc3444cea43c71c1af2b172029e09df79
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6577 5120 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007700.bin
7a33dc83b5429f3c565fff056cdb5468fc28b99857fe47dfc5efa078ecd8a0e4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7700 10060 bytes