Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff1d577e0793840c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.9 KB Created: 2020-08-19 16:42:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 01c4a25b5c4b4d19c0abd472c82720e8 SHA-1: d2fbe26297ab6b2a13a9b2075ac81cbab993416d SHA-256: ff1d577e0793840c39957ba23b689c3c1edaf293a02327fa9991a479f1d60cf2
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=difference+between+formative+assessment+and+summative'. Another critical heuristic identified a PDF link farm, with 'https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1895/2612/files/mastering_the_art_of_french_cooking_en_espaol_gratis.pdf' being the first listed. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to educational assessment and the URL, suggesting a lure to a malicious site.

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.ru/pify?keyword=difference+between+formative+assessment+and+summative
    • http://zoliti.ameliaandcompany.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814017/fuvopax-witeru.pdf
    • http://files.northcountrysuggieshop.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814529/e381d5fe995028.pdf
    • http://files.imperiacateringjakarta.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070792/8522147.pdf
    • http://files.ctcornerstone.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681836/xaradar.pdf
    • http://files.juliaopawska.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380870/kamusoze.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1895/2612/files/mastering_the_art_of_french_cooking_en_espaol_gratis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8236/6629/files/96423392454.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6903/7982/files/53032655958.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6635/2025/files/jvc_video_cassette_recorder_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8330/0005/files/54305789188.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8117/9048/files/91730448205.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/2158/5831/files/2020_calendar_philippines_with_holidays_printable.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3127/3365/files/25919395892.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3731/0626/files/15750395170.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8956/6623/files/44602935483.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/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8330/00

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006d4c.bin
1e059d014b9ea21b8a17024881c2a28853b10bfb153ee768ee9ee9b146c608a5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D4C 5428 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007fb8.bin
d4ba796b796b36f99b027bd73648270597363e4b32a92868fd4040082f884b52
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7FB8 9996 bytes