Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f48d52f805c75484…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.7 KB Created: 2020-08-09 00:24:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9acaa6df5a7c30f3d5420fbb350096aa SHA-1: aca217d686dec4d9cee426a58c4f6e662e8ce9c1 SHA-256: f48d52f805c75484d75ea735d374f664e58930c34821f2263215f3248f13fdc5
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=irrigation+engineering+question+bank.+pdf'. This URL is presented within the document body, disguised as a PDF file. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs. The ML classifier strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The primary attack vector appears to be social engineering, luring the user to click the malicious link under the guise of accessing educational material.

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=irrigation+engineering+question+bank.+pdf
    • http://files.bartschcchs.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406715/musebit_razawoweli_dazidejowalutun_lugufuxasoma.pdf
    • http://files.mittelmanassociatesarchitects.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384636/4a989.pdf
    • http://files.allentraining.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131414134/pojixekidojuxax_jozupuxe.pdf
    • http://files.tspcd.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740049/141e715e1440162.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1014/3902/files/94901446023.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5781/4431/files/all_souls_trilogy.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5362/0136/files/duduj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5129/4628/files/jalabipip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8963/9077/files/sowepefofazegipovog.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3619/5488/files/gunifa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6397/5835/files/business_vocabulary_in_use_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/96672573922.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2087/0044/files/91773525280.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2539/8946/files/football_manager_2015_download_android.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0110/1984/files/rudram_namakam_telugu_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/2102/0834/files/advanced_excel_vba_tutorial.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3528/6943/files/61097386885.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_off00007383.bin
33c9b809bb643efad1a38856f4c72dfb869245fdeb2731b4250b6c050e625be5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7383 5476 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008628.bin
6af94fc7a8f24d0d916e251c85e90fa4c447adda2583fc9850cea28ed82498a7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8628 10272 bytes