Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae5c9e4c04f38fc4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.5 KB Created: 2020-08-07 16:20:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a9806be9272bc3dffff778063e198921 SHA-1: 987815cbb5bbc233b375b69492f84eafea3f0cff SHA-256: ae5c9e4c04f38fc459fcb0a955e2e85e0b17cffde8a14164f84f6c30849a3d04
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, which is indicative of a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. One critical heuristic firing identified a link to a known malicious redirector, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=punctuation+worksheet+for+grade+1+pdf', suggesting the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious sites. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to a 'Punctuation worksheet for grade 1 pdf', which serves as a lure to encourage clicks on the embedded malicious links.

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.cc/pify?keyword=punctuation+worksheet+for+grade+1+pdf
    • http://files.ramblesandbrambles.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606175/9188525.pdf
    • http://files.disciplesofthemysterium.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606094/dameputazude.pdf
    • http://files.pegcozzi.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453402/lerilomamepagenuxu.pdf
    • http://files.tahitiwifi.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740323/6376505.pdf
    • http://files.michaeljamesvocals.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383541/2092009.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9954/6010/files/59658787013.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6111/6064/files/94853312828.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7881/1810/files/33620593984.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6426/2818/files/jefijasuxirekejonijeve.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0361/6165/files/43195046583.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1567/5815/files/8660263790.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8333/2772/files/printable_ged_study_guide_2016.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7401/0782/files/4297374621.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2873/3352/files/madifubaperejoxidapilu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3759/7607/files/99948207492.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_off00004fc9.bin
005ba9cea45e822e49711597ba35b484a88900f2ce7e3ebbbc5b240e46ac9224
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4FC9 5596 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000062e8.bin
2b3be4983ced9c29821dd8908d0dd4012753f25f2fc8b67c80e8239305b4a811
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x62E8 10224 bytes