Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fbf5a0335b65de3f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.6 KB Created: 2020-09-09 06:41:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a7974ee5d5dd6ff8497ce830e66ac9fd SHA-1: df6b230e735062cb508d5e5cf98f9b73b88dc464 SHA-256: fbf5a0335b65de3fe42eb33a95ce4b66eb55b4449ed700d034b4840ec1c9cb36
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.club/wix?keyword=facebook+cover+image+2019+template'. The document body, though heavily corrupted, contains fragments of this URL and text related to 'Facebook cover image 2019 template', suggesting a social engineering lure. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many pointing to benign Shopify domains, indicates a link farm strategy, likely to improve SEO for the malicious redirector. 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.club/wix?keyword=facebook+cover+image+2019+template
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9c43ec_4103e8a1aeda42dcaf61c3b753137030.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9058e5_0a477fe83b2243eb8139bcb0f983f663.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1e32c2_e89619eba3904d6398024e23ec690b00.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9276/2006/files/lujugalazudibena.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0553/4620/files/33195884604.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8609/4242/files/62089202941.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/3823/6826/files/texto_argumentativo_sobre_el_aborto.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8148/2919/files/jilobedamegis.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/62e2c1_634f8989f11f4f26880a83764e19c7f7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/73f3b0_0b2d4c5836614eb39b60e6ff6c30830e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/87a178_a80584c343b0459dbcb90b2dbd176042.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0112edbed89145b9be46dabcb3dd0050.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8701/8649/files/janetasilafix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5666/8573/files/uniden_bc700a_scanner_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0009/4112/files/formal_business_letter_format_multiple_recipients.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000069d4.bin
4c06b86d5f483b7eba3245d138a0d14ee9fb23ef093ce8b6cf8afa6352715a6f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x69D4 5456 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007c73.bin
688d5320ef42292caccfc2fce00daeec984c56be5570728272e4928a40c347d1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C73 10152 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009f33.bin
a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9F33 4324 bytes