Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5589a98000989b6e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.8 KB Created: 2020-08-20 19:31:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e9f2b2af9feb10aca3a007b0445ee5a2 SHA-1: 62cf896c98af5efbf6b75b6688cf0c11242f6283 SHA-256: 5589a98000989b6e97affaf5b3c16c7e453ae69d4893a67c3bc2760714db29ce
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm and a redirector to malicious infrastructure, disguised with a lure related to educational worksheets. The primary malicious URL is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=fractions+and+decimals+worksheets+grade+7+pdf, which is likely used to redirect the user to a further malicious destination. The presence of numerous links to Shopify-hosted PDFs, some of which are benign, suggests an attempt to blend malicious links with legitimate-looking content for SEO poisoning or to evade detection.

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=fractions+and+decimals+worksheets+grade+7+pdf
    • http://lisup.scotsresearch.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775478/462408.pdf
    • http://files.adnpkids.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874354/185510.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3025/7568/files/96751722505.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8508/6374/files/auditora_de_seguridad_informtica._ifct0109.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3996/4834/files/colouring_fractions_worksheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/49893706483.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1123/4199/files/bareboat_charter_agreement.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7441/2949/files/chemistry_formula_book_for_neet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8833/9361/files/46416162683.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/4892/2270/files/candomble_de_angola.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2930/7287/files/22693972672.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7061/1861/files/activities_for_halloween_in_english.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2270/5063/files/dofubevokagagekaradari.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_off00005837.bin
e673ebf4b0f3666ed51043e747d0b1bc4f99e5e19548df803f6684b77582b026
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5837 5548 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006afd.bin
caf771ce98409dc853fa6db8d6d44c80e656ab2f4c9463653ead1fb44ea8f7ca
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6AFD 10832 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00008fd5.bin
d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8FD5 4324 bytes