Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f0af761f4eddca9f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

90.0 KB Created: 2020-07-29 11:39:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: bbb9c31ab8179914880c435cc2cc2e18 SHA-1: b1dff5a31d57c15ee2c3c45b25ff47a9e0a027b3 SHA-256: f0af761f4eddca9f110a4ddb812d790112e8d927d742bad6ce2e1700636a96d4
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains, but one critical link redirects to a known malicious domain (ttraff.cc). This indicates a link farm or SEO poisoning attack designed to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary attack pattern involves redirecting users to potentially harmful content via these 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.cc/pify?keyword=serological+methods+for+viral+diagnosis+pdf
    • http://files.hypopara-awarenessday.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739782/jenujevugebaxemit.pdf
    • http://files.almamusicandartsfest.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069789/710708.pdf
    • http://files.mrssenasclass.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437601/gonomisixukuzexozi.pdf
    • http://files.istolo.net/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163712/monunot-wosejavivasev-jubizosut.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4981/8024/files/zasutapawinuzukudu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6502/4412/files/92644031808.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8941/8657/files/77719888505.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6167/3126/files/ponivififunudopulabupe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6397/5835/files/37913394756.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2930/7296/files/vumijumebefofegek.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/66916333827.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2597/2904/files/22334282641.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2340/8032/files/vosakup.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2702/9400/files/61842547796.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4962/2431/files/bamekonuburiralurap.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_off00010f13.bin
1c0daa7e8bbc92c246722bfd96d99bb565ed2b0e9af90a8b7e18798e238b5241
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10F13 5520 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000121ac.bin
801261ac96efb2acc1386e155da446a7ce69fb8e57ad14946cec613b73213023
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x121AC 10344 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00014500.bin
98bbda09e34957c2c47eea570891e411fa41ced272e9777bbef021ce7395b75a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14500 16148 bytes