Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 47b8e05e1a6e4528…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.6 KB Created: 2020-08-18 23:40:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b798b054e2154802053ed8e560f74c86 SHA-1: 3b54766d269dcb08d8b24f1bb2c625e4d3b599a4 SHA-256: 47b8e05e1a6e452892d9928fbb9fa80895bb7faa0d6f6ab1682d5bc44768ea8e
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a significant number of embedded URLs, many of which point to a link farm hosted on cdn.shopify.com. One critical heuristic indicates a direct link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=foolproof+academy+answers'. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body contains text related to 'foolproof academy answers', suggesting a lure for users seeking specific information, which is then used to mask the malicious redirection.

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=foolproof+academy+answers
    • http://tezemujuv.seattleknittersguild.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695829/vijiz.pdf
    • http://pabuz.freedom-conspiracy.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775868/nufaj_kefemalag_domosuke.pdf
    • http://files.rmc1studio.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130968962/xodog_wugik_zokosewosexola_roriruzosajawu.pdf
    • http://files.miss-strench.net/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302876/f825b1f727a629.pdf
    • http://jimuk.seanhasey.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775792/b47248d9d0.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3005/2007/files/national_awards_2020_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8721/7319/files/ecology_and_environment_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9050/2051/files/gasuligeforawikelusakogar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5553/8595/files/definition_of_acquiesce.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0458/2866/9603/files/movie_er_app_for_android_apk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5090/7286/files/zimolagi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9338/5633/files/8468165079.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6748/7894/files/tufaluribo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4863/8363/files/besobefaze.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7252/0352/files/vavuzagewepiwa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1663/2992/files/gst_tax_slabs_2020_19.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5813/3152/files/25186952889.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_off00007774.bin
8e6add203d4533e48434734de637b3d77a93aa01d59f7fb1527f6f332675765b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7774 5448 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000089fe.bin
dcf3344b41f7218d76e92fe198db935680ee26f3e57a864b3fd69ec2bb94acc4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x89FE 10276 bytes