Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c6d0e8f39e11614…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.1 KB Created: 2020-08-21 18:59:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5781bbb469504beec773b82efa08f701 SHA-1: d4e1863d9ebbdf30fdd4804ee29f4467e82b0f50 SHA-256: 3c6d0e8f39e11614e6eb984c71c1a0807b99311348fc488661ff4de82bbf7cc1
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains embedded JavaScript and multiple external links. One critical heuristic identified a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=letter+format+for+experience+certificate+in+malayalam', which is likely used to direct users to malicious content. The document body, though partially corrupted, also contains this URL and other PDF links, suggesting a link farm or redirection scheme to distribute further payloads.

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.
  • Embedded JS stream low PDF_JS
    PDF references a /JS stream. Generic JavaScript is common in benign forms; specific dangerous APIs are scored by separate rules.
  • 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=letter+format+for+experience+certificate+in+malayalam
    • http://files.lianajoychristensen.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164479/2525027.pdf
    • http://files.anrs.ca/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695278/7936766.pdf
    • http://zivove.stopmassincarceration.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871699/nexaretagozugo-jaranewapuwo.pdf
    • http://files.carcbehindthewingz.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738559/jirezawefarut.pdf
    • http://files.virgoapothecary.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738928/4aba63c6d8d066.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7542/0835/files/88060234800.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/laxefasigapabaxirasu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6073/1803/files/tilamed.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8414/3010/files/the_devil_wears_prada_watch_online.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0983/3117/files/riteroxo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4189/0209/files/private_video_from_facebook_chrome.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0458/1408/7846/files/56910565556.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_off00005a7a.bin
8998ae71566fa3df699db6739455937dbc0e082aee6f7fdcb87d76257128289f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A7A 5092 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006bc4.bin
e550d3e86543674b8dd2878e56ad5399757a8af7ef6d9b039915b263757d2578
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6BC4 10504 bytes