Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 338cb326dbe457ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.7 KB Created: 2020-08-22 15:06:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: bc2051261d366cd971716fb20dbe5036 SHA-1: 0c550f4411005eebabc730e71ba392b883993614 SHA-256: 338cb326dbe457ea0432e585c474430d12c1731f6c4ab959c40b5c608f2fd07f
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document employs a social engineering tactic, urging the user to install a browser extension or update to view its content. This is a common lure to facilitate malware installation or credential theft. The document contains a link to a known malicious redirector, https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=command+line+linux+pdf, which likely serves as the initial stage for delivering a secondary payload. The PDF also hosts a large number of external links, many pointing to benign Shopify URLs, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation or to obscure the malicious redirector.

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=command+line+linux+pdf
    • http://files.dubsandtrebs.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606335/rikidugusewux.pdf
    • http://mades.jamfinearts.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606289/netavem.pdf
    • http://tikur.acracrew.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695471/fujotezego-zijuwixazo-nadekiviri.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3276/3801/files/46806376850.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6423/9014/files/kagan_cooperative_learning_vk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/6338597663.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6129/4757/files/kaluvaxezorisi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1070/3010/files/fraps_not_showing_fps.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1322/4094/files/50681539999.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/7803/7159/files/free_french_lessons_for_beginners.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4235/6904/files/29298201236.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1239/9009/files/futexujajobok.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_off00005f28.bin
13f8b8bbefcae011b9b77c339427cd21bb3a0470eb8143a3ac7a61078b8205ad
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F28 4888 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006fb5.bin
75274c5ded05b1e5789fa9f7d23b6c66d3bc010b77561abc73ec103b38699ef1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FB5 10196 bytes