Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cae96ce1942e0d52…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.2 KB Created: 2020-08-04 01:21:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 04018ec6094b3f8789d596d19e7bb96c SHA-1: 00b1065660b55394433fa260d3c7d26623e86f7e SHA-256: cae96ce1942e0d5271339633242c564f1d58e67e44d9d87d7622fd8880dcf7fb
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains multiple embedded URLs, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=basic+computer+engineering+notes+pdf'. Another critical heuristic indicates a PDF link farm, suggesting a large number of outbound links, many of which are to benign Shopify URLs. The ML classifier strongly flags this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the redirector URL and a benign Shopify 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.ru/pify?keyword=basic+computer+engineering+notes+pdf
    • http://files.kdvp.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437246/ribozananaj-pikoxorudokiv-jajigez.pdf
    • http://files.baliholistic.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437636/dexepu-somojir-dufenor-gugederaxuzab.pdf
    • http://files.woodbridgecommunitychoir.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636808/mizodu-dasigebade-sasaxosa.pdf
    • http://files.sudburyjournalclub.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131411147/8616608.pdf
    • http://files.northcoastcounseling.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453299/545744084e80d8.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6511/4775/files/7603001362.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4207/8877/files/72547423825.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5276/9192/files/jevenugurupogobotinapimu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9222/9797/files/gifts_ideas_for_christmas_2015.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7623/0046/files/nedex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3188/8021/files/baditomefolino.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4272/5275/files/88083259512.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/nisexabidubukov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6689/2186/files/66122355599.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7709/8910/files/34754207718.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/51025654711.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4855/9004/files/xavudijisilamutazure.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_off0000a419.bin
69a72287f8f190a614d489085ce02ea04a867677ed2b2dcddd136fe6acc336f4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA419 5492 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000b6ae.bin
9ba7a3232c7f1d2e440efc399e342b7c9efc0333280eac1809f0846bce7f604b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB6AE 11020 bytes