Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d672f6ae3ebeed59…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.7 KB Created: 2020-08-31 20:13:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b671da9ae90c5495298e77cc9780ee8c SHA-1: 38b5725042d792d697e2851d91bd8bd5ca62edb9 SHA-256: d672f6ae3ebeed599e5a3486f3e537617f2deebb44966778de48d4b76f5e436c
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting it is a guide or configuration document, likely intended to trick users into clicking the malicious link. The presence of many external links, including to Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to improve search engine visibility for malicious content. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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/wix?keyword=adaptive+path%2527+s+guide+to+experience+mapping
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8874/8452/files/cisco_asa_5520_command_line_configuration_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3712/0933/files/puraj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4976/1433/files/awakening_joy_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6734/1981/files/edward_snowden_permanent_record_free.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/824332_15a967a417214698a570f6099ce55334.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6938b56e0ada4c10b1e4f861b6c83288.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_94f15a7589ab442185a06ff5ac978955.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/87a178_4b72a9a2d1c746fca1877ca8a6068fcd.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3343/6055/files/profit_and_loss_account_and_balance_sheet_format.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5199/0691/files/metafisica_aristoteles_garcia_yebra.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8062/3015/files/tufomekalar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0460/4008/8740/files/help_with_works_cited_page_mla_format.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8603/6646/files/83281453209.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8035/8815/files/embryology_mcq_questions_and_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1081/7180/files/recurrent_aphthous_stomatitis.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_off00004608.bin
0360864867baf12e23758d5859854444b5a3ef419d4c9706fb9f6060e2188388
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4608 5608 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000058fc.bin
9629b162f69dbb9fbd1da7093084b93bcdf03a98a1fb4185e105b1a04c0319fd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x58FC 8644 bytes