Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f22e06212eee1fd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2020-08-20 01:26:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 492e259b606d0419ba5507a5001c5b8a SHA-1: 331635d45025189447faf20e7f64d5ec01b9a2d1 SHA-256: 2f22e06212eee1fd4d6efa90e4788827c55cc114bb7b4ecdd7f03947f6ec2b09
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be the target of this redirection. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on shopify.com, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute the malicious content. The primary malicious URL is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=human+chromosome+structure+pdf, which likely leads to further malicious content.

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=human+chromosome+structure+pdf
    • http://files.nsps.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606366/4030231.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8256/1176/files/parotubuxetolusavarut.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/mabiwabupo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7207/8499/files/86075704185.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3557/4943/files/wodej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4767/3253/files/namemazuganifatiwa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7974/5192/files/3360882173.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7764/0092/files/lupijofukakelawa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5497/1557/files/fefamasisafixagilijer.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2779/9970/files/3d_scanner_apk_samsung.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4397/0463/files/15326265821.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7107/6520/files/61184825201.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8651/0232/files/janeruwifaguji.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0767/1453/files/supply_chain_management_ebook.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3301/0074/files/kagakumaje.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_off0000efba.bin
3de3ea7e914239ac0e35690a361b993169cc91301952801dc8206661ad784076
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEFBA 5324 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001019b.bin
3559a94d5e4312487bff460c39ff1e867fc4553ebdf947149f71dec6cad1c099
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1019B 16020 bytes