Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 db2615d9b122e7ec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.2 KB Created: 2020-08-12 10:32:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b0526d0040870b4e99365c3378d72ced SHA-1: 61d094630ba89b34dbff843bf86c8f8031204bea SHA-256: db2615d9b122e7ec0909de156d06715677d1f3ee9397ecc9d1c3e3f20e128ee1
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing indicating a malicious redirector link. The embedded URL `https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=phonics+activities+for+older+students+pdf` is likely the initial lure. The document also contains a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on `cdn.shopify.com`, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute malicious content. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious.

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=phonics+activities+for+older+students+pdf
    • http://files.calvarybaptistemporia.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437983/ea0ea18dcabf6.pdf
    • http://files.petalsfromabelovedbridesbouquet.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398134/bapobulubi.pdf
    • http://repetab.taberlawgroup.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437462/7635130.pdf
    • http://files.gravelroadhome.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070246/worep.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7605/8274/files/37279614968.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7514/1783/files/metodo_filosofico_fisico_ontologico.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7938/5756/files/67432151641.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1130/9719/files/51285313739.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1257/0787/files/acquisition_vs_learning.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0050/4217/files/convert_vmdk_to_vhdx.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4834/3464/files/alchemist_food_menu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7285/4939/files/lua_c_roblox_scripts.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1224/4134/files/80054297224.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7196/2269/files/12103534999.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5529/2317/files/vuxinarik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0455/4385/0149/files/biosystematics_and_taxonomy.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6803/8049/files/gadolafaxibaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3495/9256/files/60391235339.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_off0000770b.bin
4701406615282a97c3319dd18f4a2f0c0ec0d98227ef843817b9ce9ec2873c3f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x770B 5304 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000890d.bin
537e9c38891250c049b2a58e8610b4e809af7d64bb5d69a0541df7f6dd872ad0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x890D 10024 bytes