Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d37a7fd805d88a04…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.4 KB Created: 2020-08-17 03:10:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 02c04c1ef82bcf9d605e9158e88a6f11 SHA-1: 17d36504b740477bf6f75ea11f01199977d497f3 SHA-256: d37a7fd805d88a04d11f79838ffb49652880b32ba56496bd6bf91d681fca35a0
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link disguised as educational content. The heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK indicates the primary URL, https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=the+great+gatsby+vocabulary+chapter+1+worksheet, leads to malicious infrastructure. The PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic suggests a large number of outbound links, many pointing to benign Shopify domains, likely to obscure the malicious redirector. No scripts were extracted, but the document body and heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware delivery attempt.

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=the+great+gatsby+vocabulary+chapter+1+worksheet
    • http://files.drandreamaas.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483830/talovi_safagixamivuges_fitotapegafota_refepibar.pdf
    • http://lozajexor.garzaproductions.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453293/9387080.pdf
    • http://files.sherwoodfootball.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409009/4079754.pdf
    • http://tatif.mvkofcclubinc.org/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814930/zetalu_vesodikiz_zeroja.pdf
    • http://files.elycehelford.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131413905/fajumo-sevijos-wikabadulima.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5969/2198/files/99346245097.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0567/9528/files/36586368348.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2249/1541/files/ashalt_7_apk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8720/7327/files/58954436971.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3305/9737/files/23339024607.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5360/5273/files/fofaluz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6142/7876/files/40051348266.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9823/5289/files/city_of_heroes_spines_fire_brute.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1018/5637/files/87170289001.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6784/2465/files/mabosurim.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5198/0712/files/2772073996.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6926/8383/files/5043365843.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_off00008ba3.bin
f0c7266d34a7dce84274dd3233427d52ffa32df93dcbf226d6ea8689a74ef525
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8BA3 5656 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009f01.bin
c718271cffea7cbe81e57ff6c20d948c044c24af0d50621746ba1f7e50f78d9e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9F01 9824 bytes