Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd293d22a0565aab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.6 KB Created: 2020-08-05 03:36:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a680d4cb2cbe4d8cc35678bd0254d8f9 SHA-1: ce6591f7d9b03f8fac57f1a4a12ab8348d7af11a SHA-256: bd293d22a0565aab6099e579c828bcb5b20678d2971c6ee6d07573f0fd82869d
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.cc/pify?keyword=null+and+alternative+hypotheses+pdf'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous external links, many hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same suspicious URL, reinforcing the lure.

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=null+and+alternative+hypotheses+pdf
    • http://files.savvytravelsisters.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681647/e5e7a73a.pdf
    • http://files.nanaimotreeservices.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164324/pazas.pdf
    • http://files.lovelifeagain-lifecoachingmore.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695416/2524687.pdf
    • http://files.tonchairs.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814032/f84bab21ba018f.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8062/9913/files/fogotubetobi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4178/3959/files/zatigobudu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5823/3493/files/93411068325.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3076/4968/files/34349852686.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6773/4176/files/wasipekowexadotubepidaki.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7372/3800/files/jejunagofuxotapapitesape.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6656/4503/files/butusezuwujaniwomur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1883/0492/files/guwedizepi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0591/0933/files/71026813431.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9743/8875/files/vijedivikex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9606/3643/files/fiduvuzo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2906/7938/files/72574219461.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2608/7064/files/sagikadi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2052/5469/files/gabaxamerekaxaj.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_off0000c925.bin
87b97876d340c40a80a84aef14d30ac3546d213759b635caf363571c9d46d2fc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC925 5260 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000db14.bin
8d508251fca67a82f658648727683ccfd9895b57267ea85b0740cb78e29aa524
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB14 11056 bytes