Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4689678d55287312…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.9 KB Created: 2020-08-27 22:27:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9acb40038bbef4793a95f21a26bf75eb SHA-1: 25be7866a4877fe8b83864a3e4e71a20293541b2 SHA-256: 4689678d55287312f4a1941a0e7636e1d4ce1ce56ab8f4ac011c829ac6edd803
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link and a large number of external PDF links, suggesting a link farm or redirection tactic. The presence of a 'Password-Protected Archive Lure' heuristic indicates the document likely contains instructions to download and decrypt a payload. The embedded URL 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=amtlib+framework+cc+2015' is flagged as malicious, reinforcing the lure to obtain software. The document body itself contains garbled text but also includes the malicious URL and a benign-looking PDF URL, likely part of the link farm.

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.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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=amtlib+framework+cc+2015
    • http://files.rachaelhainswesson.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379099/rikuzopinafi.pdf
    • http://natiro.treasuresbytinamarie.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483337/poliwufinisobivof.pdf
    • http://kukuraw.peservicesmn.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453050/kudebux.pdf
    • http://wipixa.newboldmusic.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380983/950048.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4071/0562/files/objectives_of_research_report.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5965/9420/files/fire_balls_3d_mod_apk_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/gijamibumiji.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9372/1255/files/17737392058.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0124/2015/files/auto_bloatware_remover_apk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8488/9758/files/wonudadumorewemorokifuza.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9080/4885/files/causes_of_the_civil_war_essay.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8267/0485/files/setabuxuvotabodurulopawad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6088/7705/files/zombie_catchers_mod_apk_all_levels_unlocked.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6393/4109/files/bpsc_ae_prelims_syllabus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3879/2085/files/61905035274.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_off00006037.bin
aa8d4b5834fa449f4b5a972d0bcec7d117f1b5221b2bf363f0edaaa08add0fca
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6037 5584 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007344.bin
467570f3b20de11c9a86d48e1e0cd1910adf249ff5e9d0a51884c8e6b5ea07e9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7344 10420 bytes