Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e264af0b870ced8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.1 KB Created: 2020-08-10 21:22:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7e92f2fe3170f93e4cbc11104a59af4a SHA-1: 2d2e973ac48f21ce36246a4c620a012e21ff8bdb SHA-256: 2e264af0b870ced8c9690303c5c47b78123dcdcb580e187c52144ef9ff2a45e6
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external resources. One critical heuristic firing indicates a malicious redirector link, specifically 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=carbon+cycle+worksheet+pdf'. This suggests the document is designed to trick users into visiting a malicious website by presenting itself as a benign worksheet. The presence of numerous other links, including those hosted on cdn.shopify.com, indicates a link farm strategy to potentially improve search engine ranking or distribute malicious content.

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=carbon+cycle+worksheet+pdf
    • http://files.cococochran.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683173/gizotebujedavitokez.pdf
    • http://files.jakob-lorber-australia.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383727/bininagapis_dawuk_vugix.pdf
    • http://files.covingtongardenclub.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681556/fedimefefax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2331/6630/files/accident_report_ar_form.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3993/1033/files/71475863660.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9502/4033/files/83706110512.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0956/4064/files/37315884140.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3754/7929/files/37823448665.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2468/4968/files/ncert_12_biology_textbook_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0612/2393/files/92582502478.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4722/3458/files/gowimabejotowasifusisez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/6681/3590/files/application_of_bragg_s_law.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9245/7112/files/suxapajavu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8168/6439/files/technical_analysis_from_a_to_z.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1872/2216/files/36060840032.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4136/5922/files/design_of_machinery_norton_5th.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_off00006407.bin
b7c89dde04987639d46fc532dd319ff68505e0de02d7775ed0ab992616ae4fa1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6407 5404 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007672.bin
770e3d4c83e87052a56308f8b2ae3e3f308320a3f5bbe87a78018dae55309950
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7672 10296 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009981.bin
05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9981 4324 bytes