Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e83d271172d5e4ae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.1 KB Created: 2020-08-18 21:14:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a1870c78fbac5c5a94d404266a487a6e SHA-1: 30dab8a311ad9e6796be2364d9e6a6947a40793c SHA-256: e83d271172d5e4aeac8ba7b16bc0778ae82ae2e0fb5b30089cf065bad4783610
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 pointing to ttraff.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and appears to be a lure for a game guide. The PDF also hosts a large number of external links, many pointing to Shopify, which is characteristic of SEO link farm abuse. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL.

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.com/pify?keyword=bloodstained+susie+quest+guide
    • http://files.thebagelers.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775027/zetuwajo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8358/6977/files/kisorulodani.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0123/3053/files/wefolepaturad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2328/6940/files/68289406649.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7344/4771/files/10483611885.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4979/4213/files/pukizebujesuluvuwelosodi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/6348/0215/files/alpha_beta_gamma_diversity.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4023/3880/files/99945269127.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4982/9023/files/artificial_intelligence_with_python_prateek_joshi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8100/6244/files/23519356193.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7128/4135/files/70806253483.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3019/9966/files/wiwajifaginivelexasu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9222/0840/files/sodogatebojoroxufowipe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6023/0294/files/character_certificate_format_for_job_doc.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006ccf.bin
868dad0c69b0a47e51be6bb067ee722d28b97fddd5358f9840a32d9af8ad1653
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CCF 1556 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000074ba.bin
40749d192bb60f1e9c8812d98b8f1fa2acd0441565ac55309be6f618c6bbd9d6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74BA 4952 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000859a.bin
5fe76c05be2c51dcc0bf4e6806c7681031af532eabd766ff2eeab0126c618a63
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x859A 10456 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0000a933.bin
4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA933 4324 bytes