Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d43e7ba714e27f65…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.1 KB Created: 2020-09-06 05:53:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 041ff60dded799111faded8defb201b7 SHA-1: 67d9c58bcae78077a2818f59237a63b4aad6bd8a SHA-256: d43e7ba714e27f655682ea5f120288b1651e9add0fcd3147421ca8a15c5927c0
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF was flagged as malicious by ML classifiers and heuristic rules due to its extensive use of embedded links. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to 'Algebra 1 review flip book answers' and includes a URL pointing to a redirector service. This suggests a social engineering attempt to lure users into clicking malicious links, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

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.me/pify?keyword=algebra+1+review+flip+book+answers
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8201/5129/files/15204441566.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1576/6177/files/basic_agronomy.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3495/9256/files/4118553162.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0631/9001/files/joxinosukuromolewolevoji.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2153/1293/files/bacterial_genome_sequencing.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a838c0_c9fc176e9d924e89976b75cd3abcb560.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6d45f6_0b930c1273394b0c84b7660e4a0a54b9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b5aed9_1e3076feb0cf41529a5dc041b409111d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4aae87_863454a0c63e4138b2168ea4699c153b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_dfe136bcdc9e448dbf4c3a112f7ebd87.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/21e6f2_06027f752d924bd997c7504442e5a317.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/16a96a_e9e0e4d564984a63a9f28d1f4631f402.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/39cb9d_8ca443f12dfb4b51945c3fb8745805df.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/aef5b7_6ded8291f1c94300a9a0bf97a1a74597.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e8506d_5a8e48ed1f2940b08494b8c3483887f4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1e32c2_e6b985f4cfb74b7fa5718dedf40a0df0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/37321e_16f3d06e92f34746934bd52c56a54e43.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_off00006686.bin
c09afc12c91686a4abe10a395882701ad8ed780af17ef08c80d12f5536d7f817
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6686 5468 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007952.bin
86f9e56c795f6f275453a7147cb9d45253b7fac6c23729d8c3ecfadda48bc358
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7952 16016 bytes