Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c6791042ee7050c4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.2 KB Created: 2020-08-18 21:55:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a0bab6a4721c8c41a6ec046bb1b2a6ab SHA-1: 875e882b91459d7a93c952b0df295e7323cae086 SHA-256: c6791042ee7050c438fad4fd2e113631a92f15784aee797d100b1693b1eff823
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged as malicious due to a high number of embedded links, many of which are part of a link farm likely intended for SEO manipulation. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=grammar+worksheets+for+grade+11+pdf'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting it is a primary lure. The presence of numerous external PDF links, including those hosted on Shopify, indicates a broad distribution strategy. No scripts were extracted, and the primary malicious functionality appears to be link redirection and potential SEO abuse.

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=grammar+worksheets+for+grade+11+pdf
    • http://zexojux.uniquepersonalstatements.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383388/7004728.pdf
    • http://tuwemesi.southernfisheries.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437308/9197c8283.pdf
    • http://files.vincentamelio.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740549/85bb755e12765.pdf
    • http://files.lectionarypress.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874583/bb00b05e4c.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5080/2081/files/html_full_codes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5938/8320/files/keduzafejetagojik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7622/2114/files/schwinn_electric_scooter.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2296/7207/files/rafeterusadelege.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8226/1415/files/29305673137.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9154/2681/files/html_nav_tag.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6388/3429/files/18360131825.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7125/0333/files/poxatinegidetujovur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1334/0316/files/88181666597.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1921/4758/files/gibaporapibagidurox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8212/1377/files/paxiguxerivaxexujazurixew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/5376/3999/files/types_of_multilingualism.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_off000069d7.bin
b91b316c73ef5448bb8c427f37fea7a711a126c17b1c05da5d959d83d2dcc8c0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x69D7 5664 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007d1d.bin
be823d78e499853ddfd22c309300a5470b7d27ab24ce40827fa8808c66bebecb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D1D 10176 bytes