Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2dec45bcbff8c661…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.1 KB Created: 2020-08-02 09:57:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 451f8d4e9819151d71fa2dae5fb549ef SHA-1: 406ce9f3b0d73623b44d1e7af7b35275d803ae6b SHA-256: 2dec45bcbff8c661a639975bc6711a636655f0d73ce1c3975af67f822cbd8cdb
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, identified as a link farm, pointing to a redirector URL. This suggests the document's primary purpose is to lure users into clicking malicious links. The redirector URL `https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=whirpool+cabrio+manual` is flagged as malicious. The document body contains garbled text but also includes the same redirector URL and several benign-looking Shopify URLs, likely part of the link farm.

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=whirpool+cabrio+manual
    • http://files.singersandactorsworkshop.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740218/mubazaxumadajag.pdf
    • http://files.mccarthyphotography.ie/uploads/1/3/1/4/131410736/vowipiwi.pdf
    • http://files.runnerwithin.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070733/xesafuzuniv.pdf
    • http://files.dunedinrockchoir.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874474/3758991.pdf
    • http://files.laspinashouses.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814601/5aa45f6414792d.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6240/2965/files/42732580144.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8643/8807/files/merozizok.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8987/9445/files/zobomowop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6102/6719/files/kuzexovinodigisasonavuk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/71062637782.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/tokon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3646/5559/files/6575779997.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2270/4030/files/mogekolo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0190/5315/files/ribejolomubegemexesav.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5969/2191/files/lomuberata.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_off00005fd9.bin
0bdfe6511c06d3cbf1d53c4d94320f4659d81a321b22164ad84b4314768d5355
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FD9 5148 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000713d.bin
d7fa6c507998c9a7654351543b6a3005799a9c504de1baf4a8dbad2fdcbeb38c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x713D 10136 bytes