Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc5c55e6bdf75ba4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.3 KB Created: 2020-08-18 19:15:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b3692131f91675214919eb13094e0edf SHA-1: fafe4e14b084025e3d565db951bd178137280719 SHA-256: bc5c55e6bdf75ba441b57e07d66eadb380f3af43b4e83dde14545d0585a838a3
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=formal+rationality+sociology+definition. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to this URL and other PDF links, suggesting an attempt to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and heuristics strongly indicate a redirection-based attack.

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.cc/pify?keyword=formal+rationality+sociology+definition
    • http://powebiv.saharness.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453784/4876504.pdf
    • http://liraw.briannephotography.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871991/pokopotebovojub.pdf
    • http://files.indianausbr35.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873783/jemiropazevu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3544/3875/files/18918013962.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8415/1974/files/fillable_character_sheet_5e.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8857/6665/files/38426851557.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/54183348773.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6987/3054/files/aircraft_structures_engineering_students.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/24810932871.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5509/4677/files/96784983164.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7345/4748/files/xonugomimajomevakopozozo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3142/0319/files/conjunctions_in_english_with_examples.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2011/4327/files/59370178410.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1047/4663/files/46109071807.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3196/9438/files/xagobutano.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1284/8790/files/83075090126.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_off000071db.bin
983c493341790c953763b85fd94fcde165c08f8dcdd45e8c1297667082942ffa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71DB 5400 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000841b.bin
10ec36b710abb1614982eae59835c6cc05529504b259a796c1d0d211a048086b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x841B 10624 bytes