Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd1f3f4874285a00…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.3 KB Created: 2020-08-10 10:12:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 99ebf5668e46d75442317351cf91eee8 SHA-1: 2743dc5eaa0b8fb2b59c600b1563fbedd7475d8c SHA-256: fd1f3f4874285a008d5d365883f320b7445aa2d05f64854fd6b88bbc8f3b9896
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'ttraff.cc'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Algorithm design manual 2nd ed skiena pdf' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure for users seeking this document. The presence of numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to Shopify, further supports the link farm heuristic, indicating an attempt to distribute malicious content through seemingly legitimate platforms. 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.cc/pify?keyword=algorithm+design+manual+2nd+ed+skiena+pdf
    • http://files.alabamaemsconference.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874370/3163668.pdf
    • http://files.firstclassathletics.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682119/97a75.pdf
    • http://files.insightmentalwellness.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856567/famolavo_kejubu_gadirakexi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4197/9553/files/sozokovizabefikoba.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5840/5276/files/38168033797.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/47184882359.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3033/0016/files/accounting_information_systems_11th_edition_gelinas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3577/0535/files/wibodiwibopuzatofenuno.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/6150/4152/files/26702608219.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3116/7137/files/mufetajunojagetigevimiv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5057/2695/files/american_school_history_books.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9974/1596/files/josupokijalulo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0830/8886/files/fipotofamixazukagutogev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7678/0192/files/vuxuf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4855/1068/files/71785985036.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5370/9472/files/ramapagotatuvopeduxedopuv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6631/0299/files/small_pro_key.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3929/2577/files/tumusuxezapoduzekej.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_off00006a94.bin
05681d444125596bf571f574a954a88e064dd73b2006f55f91397387362afe65
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A94 5640 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007da4.bin
bd2b7572113ccaee432d887e6228abe04d0d2aff87de4411bb304f11d3710ab8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7DA4 10096 bytes