Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef105470195a97f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.1 KB Created: 2020-08-11 03:49:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 07036f62f7d87e88757b74b1cfd39f6a SHA-1: 8bd40c3058bc3a01b9ce2a0dbc7406b4b123187a SHA-256: ef105470195a97f5128e11c96586e75354413bdc1b59def10322dca01b4d56b6
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 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=secretory+otitis+media+pdf'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL, suggesting the primary intent is to direct users to malicious infrastructure.

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/pify?keyword=secretory+otitis+media+pdf
    • http://files.obbagyconsulting.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606094/6285882.pdf
    • http://files.seattlefirstbaptist.org/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303080/81e42db7c9176.pdf
    • http://bexepi.saricaine.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710780/a83752fc.pdf
    • http://files.lifetransformationgroup.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857114/perenun.pdf
    • http://kerubogi.eleatdiningclub.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/digumugivuf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8099/1395/files/xowenexip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1440/6823/files/fofes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6057/5912/files/nuwisu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8153/9487/files/whirlwind_barbarian_diablo_3.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/4177/8838/files/advanced_calculus_for_applications_hildebrand.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6808/7701/files/genetic_causes_of_epilepsy.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6325/4944/files/51307751786.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0539/3571/files/53873916976.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8828/1761/files/dugamusabakoberemisevin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9928/2845/files/pisigofozatadugigojo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8561/7566/files/vamigal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0860/4829/files/51516680100.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_off0000e0a2.bin
92eae09dc41a6898d18796aebe6c42273beffb3fb284c023048020c667502565
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0A2 5472 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f32c.bin
417b2bc241758d55e392bb94b2918bb90f8315ca96a90d7dfe78404c7ccada4b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF32C 10588 bytes