Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de572221c3f526ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.1 KB Created: 2020-08-10 23:24:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0681a2f7e448110839f3d517cabce632 SHA-1: c503e4e5a80b26e33ac3b91967cbeb841e824e5a SHA-256: de572221c3f526ee5bfc36686777de066623b5106a3432abe31fa344af030e8e
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged by a critical heuristic for linking to a known malicious redirector, specifically 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=addition+and+subtraction+worksheets+pdf+grade+3'. Additionally, it contains a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on shopify.com, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of malicious redirectors and the link farm pattern points to a distribution or redirection mechanism.

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=addition+and+subtraction+worksheets+pdf+grade+3
    • http://files.eidia.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871952/fugevemimofupana.pdf
    • http://tisadune.lowellmagenealogy.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163590/3759275.pdf
    • http://files.bettyscountrykitchen.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070351/gugexawoladimixowug.pdf
    • http://files.design-with-confidence.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682655/xovojedutom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3486/9921/files/zadekevetufogepaxuduvag.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8929/7568/files/doweti.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0158/5570/files/61277929169.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9180/3801/files/mtg_arena_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5753/7439/files/catalog_avon_c14_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5932/2773/files/pozenujinutokolubosi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0961/2712/files/8120314250.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3406/6594/files/92231491012.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5458/7288/files/49635568675.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8581/6217/files/19555573175.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6038/7240/files/zekunopomawez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4921/2309/files/36691457247.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_off0000680b.bin
b702b37e8533789fb16b0f262a38a37658bb1d9a0dd00e0bba9663db489cb54e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x680B 5832 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007bf6.bin
fc0849ca331e1aecd76ac8a6f41a5ebb0c0cd60f516b55675b7667e48a8e4459
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BF6 10288 bytes