Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bbcdfa4b116d3a9c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.7 KB Created: 2020-08-07 23:15:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 030abc29f1efffc0f59f980cbc1b0b31 SHA-1: e0935fc283c6c073f1d13f0b88a191d4bad94647 SHA-256: bbcdfa4b116d3a9ca803b77dc73a941201e41f7bc4647f684b90451a0e406855
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on cdn.shopify.com, and one critical link to a known malicious redirector at ttraff.ru. This indicates a social engineering attempt to direct users to malicious infrastructure under the guise of providing book resources. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness.

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.ru/pify?keyword=public+administration+books+for+css+pdf
    • http://files.studio38records.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438582/36bb783e69e5353.pdf
    • http://gigan.alamovotesblue.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775612/1481918.pdf
    • http://files.sustainablegreenlife.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874641/vajuzajavixa_manututegomituf_vulan_dopumewid.pdf
    • http://files.privatestachebeardoil.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379663/kubawojidaseb_rivuzukaso_giwej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6529/4504/files/baxipemadosafofeme.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4173/4312/files/76922128596.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9227/1519/files/52433120965.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7937/7830/files/fozisejawa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/deved.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6995/5486/files/43141962059.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0201/9487/files/kefebutalijejavozuduk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6418/0390/files/faxiwupokizibunuboxegag.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9468/8412/files/nipukuwebipob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0002/0635/files/51793917162.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1173/4686/files/varidedulaxaluvum.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6808/7711/files/mikezazopusudazusupulexum.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6635/0998/files/28905955002.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_off00007252.bin
cb246e56346758f1d9ba922e6174ad46cd9bbbe19ad5cbb17abd16e227528fef
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7252 5504 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000084f0.bin
aef3a0cc784eeb530fc845543d860f2fbe8aec96bb02dbafbfee4c3dea8aa555
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x84F0 10696 bytes