Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e107117ca66298c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

60.0 KB Created: 2020-08-12 00:51:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7981124c315c85f018c80ce68f057ad8 SHA-1: ddbc64bb4b02f1a349229f2d04435bea29737d25 SHA-256: 1e107117ca66298c5d948c950607ae847104284a0465ee7e94c8ae5e4eefaf3d
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The primary link, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=basic+english+words+in+tamil+pdf', is identified as a malicious redirector. Additionally, the document body contains obfuscated text and a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm for SEO poisoning or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of the malicious redirector and the link farm strongly indicate a phishing or malware delivery attempt.

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.com/pify?keyword=basic+english+words+in+tamil+pdf
    • http://files.perfectlyimperfectcollegian.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379828/6142017.pdf
    • http://files.dancingtribescotland.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406811/0895a.pdf
    • http://gakesigum.bfstrings.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606289/razupo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1506/1153/files/65095893373.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0500/8293/files/rejowifixek.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6225/5013/files/sedawasifurijanirabo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5381/6728/files/guvozu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7319/8497/files/rectas_y_angulos_primaria.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4130/0380/files/brown_bear_brown_bear_activities.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9464/7719/files/sisonesufonawugub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/0257/2437/files/consumer_reports_zero_turn_mowers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0665/6666/files/33249356097.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6050/1407/files/zapaxuvomuga.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7475/4462/files/adobe_acrobat_reader_download_windows.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6936/5654/files/45150206866.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2051/7537/files/niperuni.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_004_off00009188.bin
018ff515f5e0b7fc6a4f284f2a062531ff2e6f82e5de76ede897acb9a1e80672
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x9188 17540 bytes
font_00_sfnt_off00007e44.bin
a0e24d1622ba35b936e713e3257911e65630faf7fcb3bae394a6601a7aed9433
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E44 5712 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000b942.bin
1e1bd93c5a8045976923a1e6a81a229c521bf3218061ff6bb70284bad1670605
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB942 13368 bytes