Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d97a4c82dbf668b4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.9 KB Created: 2020-08-31 09:03:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a4a3f080630f0f40f018afdd42657d1d SHA-1: f395d6be5deb7e085a5abae60ddd1b70316a3c02 SHA-256: d97a4c82dbf668b46e84dd1566a65eb6049da4c285d6c1e86b495a7494c66c78
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=how+to+post+a+to+facebook'. The document body, though partially corrupted, suggests a lure related to posting content on Facebook. The presence of a large number of external links, many pointing to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, indicates a link farm or redirection strategy. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious, supporting the conclusion that it is designed to redirect users to harmful content.

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=how+to+post+a+to+facebook
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/miveguxuxububepevomozit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6295/1077/files/63643198105.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9273/6155/files/ipso_facto_clause_reforms.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5116/2523/files/96268813010.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2027/1272/files/book_of_legends_sefer_ha-_aggadah.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_66def0301fec4b8982a9bcd60fb46537.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e2f197_f8b388df797644ebae76ff0319f15152.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d43733_28a5de96c180445e8ad834b3303ae0ab.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6c106e07f52c403bb00a9ab8189df849.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0779a3_89b408a610ea4faca3f17cbbe794499e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fbccce_86c2a1735f194567920b039002e8ae09.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_cf32e965c29a4c1f94fa09da9f7de94e.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/5352/6690/files/xazolofanizamilokajamuxi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4299/5352/files/dediwepugisarivexij.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3520/4511/files/fighting_sound_effects.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_off0000796d.bin
987ad227301c2f1e191a96e75b0eb04cd2ff4eb9a06773c7e99a226c8c120427
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x796D 5140 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008b0e.bin
615ab8c071a6e4a87e58e333d1b123551b4caa709607bc6367a6c1359de2ede7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B0E 10500 bytes