Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22e14a5ad2237119…

MALICIOUS

PDF

57.3 KB Created: 2020-08-20 05:24:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fba2d8e42d03166800064d19abda8bca SHA-1: fb167df3cc3110bcd4329dbd1d3ba358d931a704 SHA-256: 22e14a5ad22371192ceb263e8d867bc37057f3a3bc89bf31a6bfe465c460e65c
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF contains a link that redirects to a malicious domain, identified by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous external PDF links, as flagged by PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM. The SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE heuristic indicates the document attempts to trick the user into installing a browser extension or update, a common social engineering tactic. The primary malicious URL is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=angular+formgroup+get+field+value, which is likely used to deliver a secondary payload or facilitate phishing.

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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=angular+formgroup+get+field+value
    • http://files.carolvoss.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738484/keken.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4058/7431/files/2605945762.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8591/3500/files/jukiponumipozodi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4992/7327/files/jeopardy_tv_show_questions_and_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9080/4893/files/53179077014.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5752/8480/files/legufodaralijofo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/0825/8211/files/b_w_photography_magazine.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/3266/9334/files/advertisement_effectiveness.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/5407/5799/files/background_powerpoint_islami.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9934/8389/files/53181979511.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2388/2664/files/88590381566.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0100/2664/files/fenodutorazevinu.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
font_00_sfnt_off0000872a.bin
835b3a7d053dc0999d6abd577cd56fc7a233bf61a8d197ae26bfad906be7af9b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x872A 5116 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009881.bin
ce38262a8d23c285e89fdfabe370045e7b2610c26429ccfa2f11e8f8eb0c3bda
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9881 15524 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000c9ae.bin
cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC9AE 4324 bytes