Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1b2ad4099e3c06a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.8 KB Created: 2020-08-22 15:59:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 93bb8b4bdaa899e9af99782df5f8e876 SHA-1: 1050ed9040b6ac8bc8dce818f4e5e143f4b151c2 SHA-256: 1b2ad4099e3c06a4619644b7f7194385706d4bcbaec6da6fb84aa64bbcf4c8dc
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=honey+gain+app+apk'. This indicates an attempt to lure the user to a malicious site. The document also contains a large number of embedded links, many hosted on Shopify, which is characteristic of a link farm or SEO poisoning technique. While no scripts were extracted, the presence of the malicious redirector URL is the primary indicator of malicious intent.

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=honey+gain+app+apk
    • http://files.houseofblackart.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814254/tezalujuz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/3216/2982/files/agile_software_methodology.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7310/1214/files/albinos_en_africa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6966/1589/files/82239326200.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/4316/4058/files/best_app_for_android_reddit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1839/4523/files/77654181679.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8366/1461/files/xonarufuninidevo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1688/7192/files/tegixenigef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1126/0062/files/62876154584.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6327/8758/files/descargar_certificado_de_antecedentes_judiciales_policia_nacional.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2032/8864/files/keperuv.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005941.bin
dffd421b006e7d7753cb38e59d4ef8eb13dccc846eff350b4bcd1e2a34e296f8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5941 4808 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000069bc.bin
d465cd1923c92fffbedeae8642d5c5fac6b9c25b1ea25472d99ee8d298c743e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x69BC 7536 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000083be.bin
38663ed330a6666421910d21e533c77d51ddafda71366d8a77d8e58abdc396f3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x83BE 14648 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0000b1bb.bin
354dce64f07f3d7acdf6a04edf763950ffbfec4edcbb4bfe17b65a83544077bb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB1BB 16036 bytes