Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4679fe96711595c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.0 KB Created: 2020-08-09 03:55:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 66afbf0d38d5e0113bdf52cd4ab3719e SHA-1: 8c06186246d7ed84d5434941b7c194b7867e21dd SHA-256: 4679fe96711595c04ed9fcfb0bc2c150be94ab71f4ed50bd5d3a8ee578da58d3
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a high number of embedded links, many of which point to potentially malicious redirectors or unknown domains. The primary malicious link identified is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=streamline+english+pdf+free+download, which is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the same URL and other PDF links, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to drive traffic to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct payload execution.

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=streamline+english+pdf+free+download
    • http://files.iguanamercenary.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407152/raxotobuxiw-gapifijibabol-megasej-nunijebafaso.pdf
    • http://files.thealleghenyinstitute.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813054/4180539.pdf
    • http://xekug.randolphworc.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606349/4a086.pdf
    • http://gefapuji.ninjoga.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775795/631b35f96d340a5.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2816/9375/files/51080633033.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4894/4284/files/inorganic_chemistry_notes_for_neet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0688/6051/files/zelda_minish_cap_cheats.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6424/5922/files/28700662732.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1306/3327/files/46912435621.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9161/6153/files/78398425961.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1030/9787/files/88355580494.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9072/9377/files/9787593394.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4176/7072/files/fupefogudibesarixase.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8098/8325/files/digimon_dusk_rom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8812/4829/files/vijimipoxo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5791/3754/files/negative_prefixes_game.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1269/1867/files/pazanovurebirexev.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_off0000848c.bin
51700b4e93377969c51dc916ebd093e458bf511b22d7dd0072dc25b4e1792b38
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x848C 5648 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000097a8.bin
ed4af3ae017463eafd4b7e0ac519b5187725ccb67b12e0cf133f58fb87ce54d8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x97A8 10280 bytes