Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2dd01689cfe62908…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.5 KB Created: 2020-08-01 18:09:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 22caf41666764a0d2ea5a742829e2735 SHA-1: e08998525e4ee49d3dbf617e1561c291500efff4 SHA-256: 2dd01689cfe6290822dde6503fe0cdf74b9cf5c2a250d7262034245c51922b56
142 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm and a malicious redirector, disguised as a medical textbook. The primary malicious URL is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=langman%2527+s+medical+embryology+12th+edition+pdf, which is likely used to redirect the user to a malicious site. The presence of numerous other links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a tactic to improve search engine ranking for the lure document, potentially to broaden its reach. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, limiting further analysis of the payload.

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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns
  • 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=langman%2527+s+medical+embryology+12th+edition+pdf
    • http://files.salesmeddic.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452858/juweja.pdf
    • http://files.wellsburgchamber.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969428/sanor_majafiwe.pdf
    • http://files.casapaloma2.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873758/wutij-jibip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4872/2851/files/7003418363.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9308/9692/files/zanofoxop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0692/6741/files/64815455570.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1434/7160/files/dilabadisepimidul.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4686/3005/files/32038991329.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6944/8097/files/pivabomajopunepet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7546/9473/files/fizuvanunabarapen.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5453/0714/files/92646997423.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8607/8369/files/58700015163.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5682/4471/files/gipiwadajakiwonuv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4797/5062/files/76266491022.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8947/7273/files/dixidez.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_off00004720.bin
bdbd469430998e215ade0ede3d0654ef764d09b29b5270ef4141b85ba147be8d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4720 5972 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005b5f.bin
7da83a668dd28f244d36e4b11b21dc3ad6b3a0aa6c056449fb7443f7e9cc312b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B5F 9936 bytes