Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c5dded7659b723b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.7 KB Created: 2020-08-22 11:04:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7562b3f8a7d1d17a30cdeeb995a5e90e SHA-1: 73545b12a0790786916e7c22f3074b7593acd772 SHA-256: 3c5dded7659b723b25775ae94e49e1838078f916c2eb55708c66ba034072c13d
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, includes text related to 'German language books for beginners pdf' and a URL that appears to be part of a link farm designed to attract search engine traffic. The primary malicious link, https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=german+language+books+for+beginners+pdf, is likely used to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of many links, including those hosted on Shopify, suggests a large-scale SEO poisoning or link farm operation.

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=german+language+books+for+beginners+pdf
    • http://kejilutog.gmsphones.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739267/6315179.pdf
    • http://files.aaltowib.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164009/5dd041d097f.pdf
    • http://files.cynthiahoyle.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775795/xejulet_pizokakakug_rovupi.pdf
    • http://files.chestateeriveradventures.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681824/e79825d6c9b.pdf
    • http://files.flatspokecycles.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408529/6549756.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4257/0402/files/sagepituz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1877/2903/files/advanced_and_multivariate_statistical_methods_4th_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2737/3990/files/aritmetik_dizi_konu_anlatm.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2571/0752/files/brothers_song_sapna_jahan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9899/4856/files/46664292758.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8582/4164/files/rozexupisolefupolumo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5744/6038/files/vezukupupikuvidiwux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4513/5260/files/c_a_ka_full_form_video.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1615/7344/files/1333263266.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9869/4049/files/73812794933.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5681/6540/files/jomiromo.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_off00006c94.bin
5395feb34e28f926e229337c7b25f1d00df4d74a81c36dc3943088dbfd224f38
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C94 5596 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007f83.bin
f29d9096192def944e51505906d7e835c8754cbbef376ad862d732015a10feda
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F83 10072 bytes