Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bf14a6b89c1776ae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.8 KB Created: 2020-08-11 20:50:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 985bbc8d609170faeefb2ee352cedb07 SHA-1: 757d0c6d4a0d272bf8f85a20de28b8aa19060cac SHA-256: bf14a6b89c1776ae980be3738d83dfe7c92fe6b332d2840d9920d3c0fa5b6a7e
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a high density of external links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link redirects to a known malicious infrastructure at 'ttraff.ru'. This suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to lure users with a fake 'accounting tutorial pdf free download' lure. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. No scripts were extracted, but the embedded malicious URL is the primary indicator of compromise.

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=accounting+tutorial+pdf+free+download
    • http://files.ruthscurr.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776208/wewuwurifa.pdf
    • http://files.emilynahrens.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380181/nemiwenisilaj_dipobuzilatozi_fonoxojon_sipow.pdf
    • http://nanubuze.lillipillidental.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874284/rajip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5852/8405/files/rimunovulagedize.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8983/6697/files/narefiduvemelawetilodozu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6702/2239/files/57701360521.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/6944/6046/files/the_apostolic_ministry_rick_joyner.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8711/6965/files/pals_pretest_code_2016.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2949/4936/files/sixole.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3509/8264/files/dewesufexip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2457/9736/files/19900703215.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8624/1187/files/national_commission_for_scheduled_castes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0086/3643/files/79586330314.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0818/0895/files/filizovanaselizidomipad.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005ee7.bin
6c65fea3635a3b86efe8a7eb521a5525a7145283436f4a7116560cf111e67673
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5EE7 5224 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000070cd.bin
856d02624c37055b9d282e555a4720390f4f6f10a822591969bcec322ba1061e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70CD 10672 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009565.bin
ea75db71c9df7250347a03039f742fcd189f5fc3f08964e696816fa8b5227073
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9565 16092 bytes