Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d516ae9fb94bda9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.9 KB Created: 2020-08-22 10:46:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: de61859ee08265e998465021745d4c70 SHA-1: e96a72ae2367fdd5235512f582be764e9807d6e1 SHA-256: 3d516ae9fb94bda98a28b4d983ed225d1476fd9daf9862dfff7890d57295a34c
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a lure related to 'Iti admission punjab form 2019' and includes a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=iti+admission+punjab+form+2019'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com. The document body, though partially garbled, contains the redirector URL and text suggesting an invoice or payment lure. The primary attack pattern involves tricking the user into clicking the malicious link under the guise of an admission form.

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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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=iti+admission+punjab+form+2019
    • http://files.andyknappmusic.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483603/motisurogik_nufosi_jivogewavuf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1754/3588/files/south_africa_national_anthem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5847/1846/files/salivarinipusoji.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6241/1935/files/jerinelemebuv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0942/6079/files/furepigizopesag.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6465/6026/files/petokararip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5040/1943/files/84653714655.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2756/0610/files/confirm_receipt_of_email.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7788/6367/files/kitogef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4809/8209/files/59902461386.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1941/0328/files/delem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8546/3713/files/14414904146.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8813/3787/files/48848334295.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_off00005d3d.bin
0739a6e7c0ac88693b0b4a676b7c77132f4e318c773f70246d1b930c50f4e2b7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D3D 5788 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000070d3.bin
b541cb391ec6a4278a158aa27dfc7468b268de32bbfed4f31eea284ad108e570
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70D3 10000 bytes