Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fcad156b4910e25b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.2 KB Created: 2020-08-09 20:45:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9842d3e0e7d252c0eb71a61bd3733d62 SHA-1: b9780c8de87d33bb80a4d0953dc1379a94691266 SHA-256: fcad156b4910e25b69e70e9ef0fdc99ba84107ee14914aec8f421521ef6a972f
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and contains numerous embedded links. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector service, ttraff.com, which is likely used to obscure the final malicious destination. Another critical heuristic indicates a link farm, with many links pointing to Shopify domains, suggesting an attempt to leverage legitimate platforms for hosting malicious content. The document body itself contains garbled text and embedded URLs, reinforcing the malicious nature of the document.

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=al+koran+pdf
    • http://gotoravep.jesmicjewelry.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409090/febenoboxow-puzojopugoro.pdf
    • http://files.feathersalliance.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606492/rixik_joxawobife_kofido_xogixo.pdf
    • http://files.findingspecies.org/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814196/nafepitor.pdf
    • http://files.diegobardonephotographer.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814935/1817324.pdf
    • http://wexopak.notsuchsecretlife.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453574/4490120.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6570/3590/files/pdf_to_word_apk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7510/7992/files/ub_04_form_instructions.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2023/9519/files/marcadores_de_aneuploidia.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9474/6023/files/95272329394.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0903/2863/files/maxidekatiwixutilanu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6997/2392/files/11018562016.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0614/8255/files/jatonelanilavave.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0374/8260/files/ximasedulexibe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9868/6111/files/bulimazenik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0204/4316/files/cazadores_de_sombras_los_origenes_google_drive.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_off00007ae2.bin
a0911c457af5759f1e26d0282e4deb4fe4c7ac06181473ae14e6082160325fa4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7AE2 4908 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008ba3.bin
8f02e57e63bbd4bc58a5d69124938de4ffa00da5fd79232ffa3d0e2fe1160721
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8BA3 10676 bytes