Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3ff78df95403d900…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.5 KB Created: 2020-08-07 06:45:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 8adae042f6eab8c88ce71d5255a1f04b SHA-1: 7617a3b823603eaf2b31c029d8e536f2049aae41 SHA-256: 3ff78df95403d9000868f40ff51a66f62931b845087ac138358a697ff4297a8e
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=energia+eolica+pdf+unam'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to redirect the user to malicious infrastructure. Additionally, a heuristic for a PDF link farm was triggered, suggesting the document is designed to host numerous external links, likely for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL.

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=energia+eolica+pdf+unam
    • http://files.notan.info/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696512/lokodepa.pdf
    • http://xawugera.farmcounty.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408100/gawagusizu_kidemafixozuj_tafotavobuxiv.pdf
    • http://files.scalesexoticpets.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381078/9d5f03ec10c3ba.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8797/8913/files/21919122036.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1969/7303/files/relic_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0879/4530/files/49108321512.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/mutim.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8043/3302/files/13070934815.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8379/2548/files/zirorogipurofuromani.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2045/1997/files/99726946428.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5054/8899/files/nibaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1975/4907/files/patobitoxizota.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7594/5113/files/fibawumujexoziduxogob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4227/4471/files/4065033327.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1265/1170/files/45726444431.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9847/0552/files/xajen.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3199/4280/files/63752643074.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_off000142db.bin
3c30e007e7a83342ca3cb4bf754298c40d0f827ccd50db4599c37b624db7e331
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x142DB 5252 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000154ae.bin
3cdb0f3b294398a20a2d4bd3e9a21b73546d8c65b365e0e4e014f722af854e24
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x154AE 11080 bytes