Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c521620392285016…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.3 KB Created: 2020-08-09 07:08:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: af8e835cd04a6695b937266b1fc2ea46 SHA-1: d419355bc40197cd850fd5fdce89ef8564c3af4d SHA-256: c52162039228501600d560472341c47c6ccddddfc97bb1d80198ffeaf92db20a
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=degree+of+freedom+mechanics+pdf'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The presence of a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to disguise the malicious redirect. No scripts were extracted, and the document body is heavily obfuscated, but the malicious redirector link 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=degree+of+freedom+mechanics+pdf
    • http://files.ivan.mrslambsroom.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606165/679719.pdf
    • http://files.reddevilsalumni.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382395/giwosiz_jivilupoj.pdf
    • http://files.ptnightout.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740432/ruzeximanuz_tivujap.pdf
    • http://sokibo.eprentals.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438641/2095051.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4587/8950/files/bozekiz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9092/8026/files/myanmar_books_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0255/2742/files/15435568834.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8370/3206/files/wisifodipurotokasiguvovex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6525/3789/files/42._3438_71._1154.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4853/3144/files/24157907501.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2875/0234/files/advanced_mathematical_concepts_precalculus_with_applications_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6753/9623/files/milapigumipiroleb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4066/9849/files/fifa_15_soundtrack.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9426/8320/files/lazofi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5173/7498/files/domepuvub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8689/5522/files/chemistry_formulas_for_class_9_and_10.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3600/0931/files/16284649933.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_off00007259.bin
56a75683af30afb1e87f0dfb4a6dad6c588f98911f6e0112d96ba648546d8385
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7259 5536 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000850d.bin
79c1adcc9135cd0867851830f6932a63bc05d7688add0e916d10d3b8a7b267fd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x850D 10204 bytes