Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5310e81c60a860c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.6 KB Created: 2020-08-10 02:03:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b9f9c796fc3dba65441d4921300bb208 SHA-1: 3b89ba2f54e17845e4f52b60092fd6a61523d02f SHA-256: 5310e81c60a860c81b6bcb8109f79bca9f2db339f8b4fc3750f96f959cdb1e53
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=acquisitions+incorporated+pdf+download+trove', which is flagged as malicious. Additionally, the PDF exhibits characteristics of a link farm, pointing to numerous external PDFs, some of which are hosted on benign platforms like Shopify, but others are on unknown domains. The presence of urgency language further supports a malicious intent to trick the user into clicking the malicious link.

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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.com/pify?keyword=acquisitions+incorporated+pdf+download+trove
    • http://sijoba.robinkanstul.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739625/bitupugoruse.pdf
    • http://files.aliquippachristianassembly.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695575/pedadibopurorareba.pdf
    • http://files.cleanestwindowscolorado.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681201/49aaba0792762c6.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4309/3660/files/speed_william_burroughs_jr.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3729/4741/files/19224750146.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9590/8761/files/30970692647.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6174/7605/files/35747127574.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/70474217151.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5856/1173/files/paganini_caprice_24.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5340/6618/files/apc_smart_ups_2200_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7401/9740/files/kojin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3250/1656/files/green_beret_lyrics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9113/1554/files/nicolas_bourbaki_theory_of_sets.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9861/0589/files/malayalam_books_online_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8531/5739/files/nigiwazuvipuzanefa.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_off000091e7.bin
9bc383f70307c5dc75f135c41467acecc0b008210288bef3e96da52321b69067
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x91E7 5416 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a47c.bin
230b8a071f8bc682ac12bd6ad197970a344987b52d7bb26b537842d6c893a22a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA47C 10724 bytes