Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 28764ea859a3d2a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.9 KB Created: 2020-08-15 01:27:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5b7e24b9d534f35acceda761fd2b323f SHA-1: a171987be7603ff03de5344673b39df0de12f991 SHA-256: 28764ea859a3d2a5f0428561551bd35c5d5fbf07549d7e1bee5ea051f8985288
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a lure for a "content plan template for website" which, upon closer inspection of the document body, links to a malicious redirector. The heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK confirms this, identifying the URL https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=content+plan+template+for+website as malicious. Additionally, the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a large number of outbound links, with the first identified as https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/1933/2766/files/zatevuzugesik.pdf, suggesting a link farm or distribution mechanism. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=content+plan+template+for+website
    • http://files.benewahhumanesociety.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776487/7711739.pdf
    • http://vebexi.valentinastexmexbbq.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384281/2147500.pdf
    • http://files.midwifeaddison.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856166/lixenufadoxugu_raxikilo.pdf
    • http://files.designsbydinius.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814397/sodedavuz_vapevaxewitokov_fexufatores_tevodijapaw.pdf
    • http://nawez.8870adventures.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438324/5754896.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/1933/2766/files/zatevuzugesik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4993/4231/files/autosys_job_scheduler.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7801/7443/files/61805976898.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8761/8463/files/64772662174.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5554/6517/files/vopaxopoguzadexi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4194/7801/files/themes_in_south_african_literature.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0763/0747/files/52345642825.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4310/2618/files/libro_almas_gemelas_dulce_regina.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7121/7572/files/building_control_regulations_1997.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4586/2041/files/asterix_en_italia_gratis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7547/7414/files/vande_mataram_movie_songs_320kbps.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1301/2637/files/56572600301.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5108/1118/files/giwazi.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_off0000644f.bin
d7fd2339c424415e66a9e77bd52395f730a981d9f89041fdef966adcc546e59f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x644F 5088 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007589.bin
f130609de0f601da3cd50c480d31c94d4fa8e941a0b4e02c73e63d3b5599af83
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7589 10144 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000983a.bin
9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x983A 4324 bytes