Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd803fdf75230279…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.2 KB Created: 2020-08-02 20:54:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a5714b96b69838874c7942572d703cd8 SHA-1: 8241a6f30b1918a4faa8805849649893944da5ba SHA-256: cd803fdf75230279bbf835387fcae5c386e4c134186160fce4462a872723252f
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=musings+of+a+cigarette+smoking+man'. This indicates a likely phishing or malware delivery attempt. The PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic further suggests the document is designed to host a large number of external links, potentially to distribute malicious content or engage in SEO manipulation for malicious purposes. The ML_NYX_PDF_MALICIOUS classifier also strongly supports the malicious nature of the file.

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=musings+of+a+cigarette+smoking+man
    • http://files.ucpgreatchefs.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682976/nunavenerogopafab.pdf
    • http://files.computerscpr.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739227/fafanifabemini.pdf
    • http://sorigepu.hldinspections.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483371/550525d1521c3e7.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/646255477.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2249/0528/files/84406432570.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/fezusagofetivori.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4334/0956/files/nujuvu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6127/9894/files/18508338642.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8799/5807/files/roferexuligari.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/jedufejaselikaruratemop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6880/7586/files/rufodaxabikejefemusurimak.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/31082235151.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9994/7169/files/datadekozamapedogipevawu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/3086/1208/files/android_scrolling_activity.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9378/6791/files/sikivuvaweri.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7519/7346/files/65689846758.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/vonabubabosutogoxofe.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_off0000de02.bin
859207e1dd0e2ec029be9178805dd63efe0038a8fe5e56f8383fc3899862a6e7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE02 5240 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000efd4.bin
3400f43d0fb83c4a1c2915356f867e053a0939f4f8ee14b0534b3271742c58f7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFD4 10476 bytes