Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea6e26cd38657377…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.1 KB Created: 2020-08-06 23:13:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: adf5760a175983741415ea8d414d878f SHA-1: 8bd68692a657e57b41060486dcbd6d3f14d87f69 SHA-256: ea6e26cd38657377c8272b4b9b7c600e78b8560f454d8e17041f85b604c73ce5
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link disguised as a case study research approach, directing users to ttraff.com. It also functions as a link farm, embedding numerous external links, many of which point to Shopify-hosted PDFs. The ML classifier strongly indicated maliciousness, and the PDF structure itself is flagged for containing a mass of external links.

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=case+study+research+approach+pdf
    • http://files.d-mtargets.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407737/1658dc.pdf
    • http://files.coachtimmurphy.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775653/9359509.pdf
    • http://files.taxi-service.us/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453498/zajum-gimozubo-vemotan.pdf
    • http://files.pilotskb.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482878/vinoginefate.pdf
    • http://files.wallacebarrelhorses.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969632/faxokufise_jatonaw_pesofixan_juwel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1541/3661/files/93039775395.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2052/5469/files/dragon_s_dogma_dying_of_curiosity.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3391/8616/files/nicolo_machiavelli_the_prince.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9970/7805/files/29875101017.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1434/8197/files/76527813088.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0091/2278/files/75795186482.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2969/2577/files/43717821944.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3792/5269/files/9065564112.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0372/9304/files/71734599450.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9838/3260/files/28359431363.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3468/1250/files/27777954934.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4447/0945/files/xikeforujageno.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2525/3023/files/gamepekoje.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1222/6206/files/45895162924.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_off00006a33.bin
0cf24e7465f5976356f77d8dc2abcf47c4ddede71d9d0b16f4ea3a4422c10542
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A33 5220 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007bf5.bin
bff284d27f4d6efc817e1836853f59f4edc60981748ffcdeafc9a4f29169c6b4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BF5 10376 bytes