Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f2cb01cf6f1bf172…

MALICIOUS

PDF

60.1 KB Created: 2020-09-04 13:34:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0064021e41de188ad48d4bb7fca818c5 SHA-1: 7c5ba43afa875394b7d1deaa93e2ad4b17b50bfa SHA-256: f2cb01cf6f1bf172020923a72ebc754f09425a8d87006266638ba3969941440c
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.cc/pify?keyword=endless+legend+guide+drakken'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous links to external PDFs, many hosted on Shopify. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL and a reference to 'endless legend guide drakken', suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the malicious link. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=endless+legend+guide+drakken
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5625/0525/files/41448469900.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2020/6758/files/zadise.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8076/0990/files/teorema_da_bissetriz_interna_exercicios.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0707/4723/files/conversion_of_galvanometer_into_ammeter_and_voltmeter.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1989/3927/files/chemistry_lab_manual_uc_davis_2b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e2a383a491994bdb800dbf6807dcff9c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e948c1_54ae2e9a5df749a8b2e8d89705a61bbf.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0fdb6d_2329a46c24d24d2984abdcceb46acb68.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e02969_2bc4b57ba4f24f3c88b8945ac24dc8ac.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6001/0906/files/aiou_admission_form_2015.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7342/8888/files/private_hottie_nyc.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3492/7513/files/wipavidi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9004/3285/files/61685893977.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7573/9553/files/angular_component_template_file.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7b4e67165c1340dc9c99ea615bc83a72.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/58a813_bbaff8a1c6e946fba780de4a85a7c50b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ecd213_4cbb36bccb3942a1959a32635b570054.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_off0000aecc.bin
1480a467c32ffd556fdf25eb9922b50536da7032a396db6e541a0c996f210e7d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAECC 5012 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000bfea.bin
e208415af83868e26cfaf87550558cf19323e3f5fe350f137ed72979fa381639
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBFEA 10352 bytes