Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dcc3ae828e6d067d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.6 KB Created: 2020-08-14 05:01:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: bbf87e1e40cb0f84791dd6c5f7c87db9 SHA-1: e2d615426c29f91bce6393cb33c400314ec52048 SHA-256: dcc3ae828e6d067de8dbfdbccf2117517b8d02a8f14b7576da1e70401438b19a
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, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=hydra+boss+guide+osrs'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious infrastructure. Additionally, the PDF was flagged by an ML classifier and contains a large number of external links, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of the malicious redirector is sufficient evidence of malicious intent.

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=hydra+boss+guide+osrs
    • http://gofajasis.xclusivelashesllc.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871721/1968caea717ee.pdf
    • http://waxivigi.fabshop104.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739783/1615971.pdf
    • http://files.rowseyforthehouse.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969999/vagotavuretukuduj.pdf
    • http://files.kenmeyerjr.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071062/lavesed.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3631/9639/files/administracion_financiera_personal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0653/3525/files/54934895253.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/17810153535.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7212/6117/files/baka_to_test_to_shoukanjuu_light_novel_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1329/9620/files/millennium_development_goals_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5827/5238/files/60719883072.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8679/1334/files/wow_cooking_guide_vanilla.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5637/9557/files/gangliosidos_funcion.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1553/6793/files/6900738724.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5719/1843/files/lista_de_alimentos_ricos_en_magnesio.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7546/0517/files/doing_business_2020_espaol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5462/7993/files/92019063767.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_off00006d71.bin
55b06b8839b644ab1bb83857b461b25883285b3d8f458f81f261e02980bd5d84
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D71 5164 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007f0d.bin
b2fad2bf613e2051f0c088fa63d37d07300bf01b134c04a8163b7675966d2e25
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F0D 14820 bytes