Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f1fb5960da6f437a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.0 KB Created: 2020-08-05 09:50:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a82de1ace00d1c52fac481219a9f9fc7 SHA-1: 3f06fb63b332d4f546735d8595f3b50f688cc21b SHA-256: f1fb5960da6f437a2eb39280e7af1e9dc1697c698e1bccdf939c4e061ba5dd44
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, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=cell+organelle+chart+pdf'. This URL is presented within the document body, disguised as a cell organelle chart. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous external links, many hosted on Shopify. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary attack vector appears to be social engineering, directing 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=cell+organelle+chart+pdf
    • http://megeb.calgeobruins.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776046/kamopunis_xukuwedek_tajurivuw_naxivijejibe.pdf
    • http://files.lauradubin.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683154/setafibunisikagil.pdf
    • http://files.drdavidnjacobsen.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453199/2571219.pdf
    • http://files.isis41don.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969059/fiwojevapedusazo.pdf
    • http://files.margateterrapinrescue.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856050/pigegeroxoxowi_zaluremusenuzaw_fumelo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/31492874922.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1928/0288/files/28731682361.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5172/8546/files/20467725185.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2358/8773/files/suzufavegat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8725/0087/files/git_upstream_branch.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6341/8784/files/60246797123.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0589/1992/files/chromium_os_vanilla.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/9680354999.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8714/2819/files/62557484723.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3087/9125/files/76704060174.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/6284/8664/files/adeptus_titanicus_1988.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0396/0731/files/youtube_still_watching.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1102/2756/files/98572449384.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_off000092f4.bin
439401313548b1e13244f662e4fe0fde1ebd2864145180702f97b734b84ee3ef
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x92F4 5144 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a46c.bin
8fdbc5a643831cbc267931d6d8fdf0524b4701235efc43db2076b7e3f849cc51
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA46C 10140 bytes