Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0474854190991b1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.8 KB Created: 2020-08-28 06:11:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c424f6fbd42a237079dc4ada395b2f04 SHA-1: 995082aea80baa02247760e887062dee76937bc6 SHA-256: e0474854190991b1bae150672c20fbd51d3a407b0a782db562afdfb98cdf99ea
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the target URL 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=princess+lideta+zera+yacob', indicating a likely attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests an SEO link farm strategy to improve search engine ranking for the malicious redirector. 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.cc/pify?keyword=princess+lideta+zera+yacob
    • http://zadorebe.limeandstoves.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131412290/parorugowa_sivomap_pomokokinir.pdf
    • http://ximegeb.annapike.co.uk/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302963/bibupij_ruzubi_vuxeximoxan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7537/1162/files/zewebupevuwamu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0669/5320/files/9201606352.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/4642/4991/files/baixar_reader_gratis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5904/3749/files/readings_for_a_history_of_anthropological_theory_fifth_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0459/2317/2503/files/mary_margaret_grace_and_frankie.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8381/7375/files/digital_electronics_gate_questions_ece.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9140/9562/files/53719132302.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2131/1898/files/nivufadagopifot.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/rejukimuvili.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1848/5923/files/deligulokosijepudev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7389/6602/files/33287903487.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006367.bin
4a72b825552a0d86467f512cf63b3db9fe4824947d7f1cbe6bfb84dd8db74311
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6367 10356 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007f36.bin
4a402c3ff74259391fa12fa220f05d49e2cc579556793152fccd4cc306f9f02d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F36 5224 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009105.bin
9dff662d441738f3ffc69ceadc05521251dd5eb2248daeffca695ceb8a8f97d6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9105 10852 bytes