Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9a66db5b5486a3f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.7 KB Created: 2020-08-05 14:49:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a45577618d0ca1c2fae702468aea6fb3 SHA-1: 8aa225025b9c3818b95a07ad0e4d5c646feb710c SHA-256: a9a66db5b5486a3f2a1b780b78462baae3b331f01e031f37114c6ddb355fd73d
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, directing users to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=teaching+phonics+worksheets+pdf'. This URL is likely part of a phishing or social engineering campaign to lure victims to a malicious site. The document also contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, which is characteristic of SEO link farms used to manipulate search engine rankings or distribute malicious content. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=teaching+phonics+worksheets+pdf
    • http://files.genesisradio.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874142/48c39501bc7d.pdf
    • http://files.rhpcollegecounseling.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070393/69fafc35cb00b.pdf
    • http://files.schoeffel.com.tw/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969489/limojazuj.pdf
    • http://files.friendswithflightbenefits.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380390/3273742.pdf
    • http://files.designby-faith.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871874/762d9dca.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2903/7219/files/jadatavesafumekopebefu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6137/1290/files/31468848363.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3985/7572/files/jujexuwulasilabofuwate.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/58933331969.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0310/1863/files/mutagidoxu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1935/1710/files/78100967241.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2491/6388/files/mujalasudewiseguxiz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2077/8653/files/xotubez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2962/6017/files/rukipesefo.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_off0000707e.bin
2a8644edc132e0963b9008685dd1a0178c66b77e606abf53e1f2dc30879e1446
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x707E 3144 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007ba0.bin
f2da0e15f64d6a92db90d09f266f699199436a0840cb68357fea0fa765d99fc8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BA0 5488 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00008e54.bin
b56887f404daf437e64dd738cc09c09d7f49d8d1533cefe8f83edc4b4c5c3b2c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8E54 10344 bytes