Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb0709903891e36d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

57.2 KB Created: 2020-08-06 04:17:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0478645cb9f95997340b25ddf0aaef96 SHA-1: 347bd57e43d64d61cc21d6a74d7986ab607fc309 SHA-256: cb0709903891e36de4d5a2deb93360d8f11c5db470434c8ee43d8fa788ec0707
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.ru/pify?keyword=500+essential+words+for+toefl+pdf'. It also exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the same malicious URL and benign-looking PDF filenames, suggesting a lure to disguise malicious redirection. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be social engineering via a malicious link embedded within the PDF.

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=500+essential+words+for+toefl+pdf
    • http://pefejofok.tiagarrawalk.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776760/pesowixoxaxuv.pdf
    • http://files.lacindra.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398366/401222.pdf
    • http://files.hyannisportclassic.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607232/xusasuxopudu_busovugozuj_fonijalu_legugunetuzipa.pdf
    • http://files.thenerdparty.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437669/299d93c6.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3575/4650/files/86578295223.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9275/4076/files/automobile_design_engineering.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7386/2821/files/wowenakosorozi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4473/2065/files/wupugofotaki.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5888/6806/files/xixuferozuginomiw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7047/8746/files/89767554614.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8197/1365/files/vabavapumajaropulik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5928/1061/files/xebapesujagopanumiwinaze.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0811/4340/files/administracion_publica_centralizada_y_paraestatal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1725/6603/files/arterial_blood_gases_made_easy.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_off0000a0c2.bin
9bd82b6ec0d16b44831da814ac92f451b85304ec05dc2c814e169827b0e67c34
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA0C2 5296 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000b2ed.bin
67fe88e688e0f49f4f12d70f2f58e0461a6fd51ff59f30264d665489c422c05d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2ED 10828 bytes