Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9968d3c68183838…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.4 KB Created: 2020-07-29 05:21:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a611d9d251e1d88d314bd1bc9056e7b0 SHA-1: cbfa1628585f7e0ad6d5e09022ad9390ad5c392b SHA-256: f9968d3c68183838adfe4e6f0ecbe88ba883d828701983a0ce1f206a2c7850d6
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, which is indicative of a link farm designed to improve search engine ranking or distribute malicious content. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.com'. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear textual lures.

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.com/pify?keyword=profile.+dat++for+dls+18
    • http://files.globecreekcamp.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710795/lidinefeki-vuxotuxatugal.pdf
    • http://files.warriorartsacademy.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874582/bd88ffec3ca9d7d.pdf
    • http://files.iamnotmylaundry.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437295/rukesewowimotu.pdf
    • http://files.englishmadeeasy.es/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637226/3936f482d93ea.pdf
    • http://files.baarleproeft.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681436/lowamelebo.pdf
    • http://files.englishmadeeasy.es/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637226/3936f482d93e
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4809/0270/files/21490543650.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5048/3368/files/mawizagetujab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8236/6629/files/gulugi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9139/2664/files/pupoxinojefadikalaxa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6567/0806/files/zadiwi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0378/1015/files/78045718706.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1456/9640/files/11364938158.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2970/6390/files/lejap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4925/4041/files/kokilejobapili.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5936/3483/files/tekedefasom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7276/6631/files/dagebubasufi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8089/2057/files/turox.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_off00006c37.bin
6d6d89258da42048df7b1797855736213f5c0b03133944ddff986b85e9ee3791
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C37 4864 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007cd1.bin
c57f7609e10cc897324e3d7a93f958bbf062dd237885aa5a8500ac1106629772
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CD1 10360 bytes