Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff0d1afc4f028ffb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.7 KB Created: 2020-09-01 08:08:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 021c6c51184051a09e859f312288fb81 SHA-1: 7970855a57a7f0b5912d25bcb77e40f5aff86dbd SHA-256: ff0d1afc4f028ffbfadfc179375990aa6db9ccc4b9295438d59f5424e92caedb
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 `https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=training+workbook+design+template`. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous links to Shopify domains, one of which is `https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5101/5577/files/tazuwowovada.pdf`. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to a 'Training workbook design template' and the malicious URL, suggesting a social engineering lure.

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=training+workbook+design+template
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5101/5577/files/tazuwowovada.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0142/9662/files/balsamiq_cloud_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0458/1408/7846/files/legovakedatibapagibevak.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3147/7922/files/81431816320.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5332/6242/files/bricks_breaker_swipe_hack_mod_apk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9353/9482/files/global_8d_problem_solving.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0089/7434/files/lunasunibowedodoxodijome.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1967/2472/files/nazawulolizutinosurikifam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4863/8363/files/unilag_lecturer_boniface_video.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0813/7128/files/one_way_anova_in_r.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3177/2835/files/night_pegasus_whistle_drop_rate.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/8126/1205/files/cara_buat_cv_di_hp_android.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c91a8d6cd1764ee89fb98ba89efd4be0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ed65bc8767a9478181d30ce0d073edcc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/34ec99_0d4c526d727a41deb9eb0ae1a5c676a0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6741f90b353c4d09a2050c093fafc4bf.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2f8cea_fba36ae6f01e4dd0b978057a53c2d644.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_off000085a4.bin
7dd7f1890a7853234314d29af6bfe23d0ac37cb7639037966951546e6208c766
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x85A4 5312 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000097a0.bin
e138cc1f77ab753e57fe6491c6c583b0da42e705a35535e674cc9aefab2d5e6f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x97A0 10472 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000bb65.bin
1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBB65 4324 bytes