Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b83c72b1ecdcdc23…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.2 KB Created: 2020-08-19 18:11:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ae775f8e7165bb1e505a49b34e4d2b99 SHA-1: a4e5e9ff7e2fa6bfa7f368cb46979125c685cebc SHA-256: b83c72b1ecdcdc23da199cc5f066e0ba9f87bc650826aaa1792ead3d966820e3
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=3000+academic+word+list+pdf'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to improve search engine visibility for malicious content. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, but the malicious redirector is a strong indicator of 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/pify?keyword=3000+academic+word+list+pdf
    • http://files.asbwellness.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384604/jarojij.pdf
    • http://files.petersknifeshop.ch/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454012/cd19e2207c8.pdf
    • http://files.larienca.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437725/sanazuri.pdf
    • http://files.thistlewellington.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164479/3696480.pdf
    • http://files.bridgesidebooks.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302978/6477255.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1129/0782/files/25651113196.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8551/3379/files/nusugogazarimivanu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6043/6896/files/getubo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1974/7996/files/50982950074.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2829/7381/files/2003_honda_accord_service_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3151/8622/files/16006517049.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0898/1153/files/xapujifavoja.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1407/9143/files/beginning_anomaly_detection_using_python_based_deep_learning.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4617/3852/files/samsung_grimace_emoji.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/97897646990.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4411/9462/files/kefijuxuzuguvu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0151/1068/files/manual_of_structural_kinesiology.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/0204/0217/files/anganwadi_teacher_application_form_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1941/9291/files/6821754259.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4651/0504/files/85849193452.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_off000098be.bin
14d5140f1fd83152198887586bcbc3330ad02cf26e5a4df988688f612e8dcbcc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x98BE 5604 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000abbe.bin
950c6fa50072e58a1ffa01fad2d6eb019a79e57008311c93d9328571d171d456
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xABBE 12496 bytes