Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e07c8f47d0b1d062…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.3 KB Created: 2020-08-21 16:09:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 04e224b81ed69ddf0821cc77bffb1b7d SHA-1: afc86dbe4333691858380967ab166a450e598880 SHA-256: e07c8f47d0b1d062e84cef5803d12016094c275376a8ceeb6a168efa45c0fbbc
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external resources. One critical heuristic indicates that the PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically `https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=factoring+quadratics+by+grouping+answers`. This suggests the document is designed to lure users into clicking malicious links, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of a link farm heuristic further supports this, indicating a broad attempt to distribute links. 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=factoring+quadratics+by+grouping+answers
    • http://gosigol.mquinn.online/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453870/20a98a014b.pdf
    • http://files.harperdrama.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813550/5275482.pdf
    • http://rajoxab.worldtravelingfeet.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871699/bajulu-muganeti-romubamamox-kodetiteviron.pdf
    • http://files.icome2you.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070872/5d592.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2426/8968/files/xapobofid.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/kofuka.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0318/3258/files/jarinotuzenenir.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6767/0689/files/platform_picture_ka_gana_tha_tha_tha.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6889/1040/files/81518587404.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/0370/7298/files/fegigovuv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7954/8580/files/xibekojugoxetel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4566/5433/files/tozononovevizadum.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0710/6462/files/67745281824.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/50537202024.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6174/7605/files/60322395032.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4039/0819/files/vacancy_in_ethiopian_reporter_newspaper_amharic_version.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_off00005894.bin
b363d48b6db79373f9766d1a36d89443ca02035e3173d02b9d9670ce67a12faf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5894 5624 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006bc9.bin
dbeb1675062032a4e19f6f399c872f4d63c7e1d6d65e3375720ec28a324752c4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6BC9 9420 bytes