Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f60fb94d0a5f4af3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.1 KB Created: 2020-08-04 23:01:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b5e0a52a4b57515ff1ba4de01ed18d4a SHA-1: e14180369f8129cc205ce67cdbb98ed3e069bc91 SHA-256: f60fb94d0a5f4af3a71218a3564f91625f82faafc90b7efb6f4a9e11bae3021f
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many hosted on Shopify, designed to appear as legitimate search results. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is likely used to obscure the final malicious destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL and numerous other Shopify URLs, reinforcing the SEO link farm tactic. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious nature of this PDF.

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=search+for+pdf+files+only
    • http://files.moorea-ucb.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379183/nesaninenam_pilosax_nanifujit.pdf
    • http://files.colossalsportsent.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379111/b423519c4.pdf
    • http://files.crossroads-university.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302716/433f9219080bc3e.pdf
    • http://files.sirpapaivinen.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380480/8717728.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1220/2389/files/kukasudanugulimodaxorovi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7122/5502/files/wokepedapim.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8415/9903/files/john_deere_4310_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7689/5398/files/21150030878.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8180/9558/files/28533830325.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3583/6072/files/77184763072.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/80787326618.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5653/7495/files/coarse_leather_farming.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2529/3724/files/linda_goodman_s_sun_signs.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9261/5073/files/58800755156.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0490/8952/files/vuzaruwiteduxuzawegogekus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8714/2819/files/nujunudolizubumakav.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_off00006b54.bin
ef049f064fbc067b8f7d81d6cf14d1cf5571d20d8c6b489914fdc0a220e4581f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B54 5448 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007ddf.bin
6077aa3c98e377394f0f171f8859c661b99c53bd83102ff91abd0a54da18c96b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7DDF 9976 bytes