Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 559ec90c38f9c091…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.8 KB Created: 2020-08-15 01:49:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 66540f340280243b099af37177f81672 SHA-1: c93d3c0efa12cb8744c41a2904d73224f9ce4436 SHA-256: 559ec90c38f9c0919e5e0b62f159e2c46c3acbc169cc7b309ef6496e909ceae5
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with many links pointing to PDF files hosted on various domains. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at `https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=recommendation+letter+template+for+coworker`. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this same URL, suggesting the primary intent is to trick the user into clicking the malicious link. The presence of numerous links to external PDFs indicates a potential for credential harvesting or further malware delivery.

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=recommendation+letter+template+for+coworker
    • http://kufat.baldwinobryan.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696021/7df025.pdf
    • http://files.chasenigleheart.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874633/nugideti_kavibapupad_juwumotitoxiv.pdf
    • http://files.klayworks.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437087/damew.pdf
    • http://files.nguyenphuchoc199.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164076/masagusepapagigap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6123/2294/files/taittiriya_aranyaka_telugu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4452/8550/files/business_model_generation_wiley_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2567/7982/files/xinevojarixaxabojupebesod.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1734/6982/files/the_handbook_of_bilingualism_and_multilingualism.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2100/9053/files/86222763117.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8674/0646/files/mean_median_mode_formula_statistics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5981/4306/files/megejazofabalitisowomepev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4646/1855/files/lonely_planet_paris.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2439/2087/files/44855609391.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_off0000a7bd.bin
2bf463857d7c01c25ef00fe381f15bab1ac87d2b2025edb34881648bc8d1c758
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA7BD 5288 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000b9ab.bin
d98a54971541c7e57ce5d3cd92bd3c91728d902440695dac765ce119667c037c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9AB 10696 bytes