Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 59ca45f7661bc901…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.1 KB Created: 2020-08-09 00:40:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3e9d0c49b3bd1968c5c49228bdf7ba09 SHA-1: bba28ecff372ffe82a2c5e0f3484ba26f6202c86 SHA-256: 59ca45f7661bc90194c5692dac4f73defeac1f933bbf428607175e7280d20579
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, with one critical heuristic firing indicating a link to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=american+short+stories+anthology+pdf, which is likely used to redirect the user to a malicious site. The presence of numerous other PDF links suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute malicious content.

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.com/pify?keyword=american+short+stories+anthology+pdf
    • http://vileg.ethiopianvillageschools.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814058/gesawusilozulipa.pdf
    • http://files.supervisedvisitations.net/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164488/a560642.pdf
    • http://files.henrikbechseeberg.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739253/muxulizubigiw.pdf
    • http://files.hopeforhispaniola.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131455232/c5cc2.pdf
    • http://files.thetalkativeteacher.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738794/8804436.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/jewepogepavab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7808/9878/files/99561288272.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5820/7643/files/twitch_sub_icon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/mijafovaginidobu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0134/8255/files/zakowazuvuvum.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8613/5961/files/how_to_get_your_ex_back_fast.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6227/8809/files/test_gramatyczny_angielski_b1.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2381/9175/files/98690525696.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8725/0087/files/tajonuwidinufavogajujowik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5689/7947/files/40049694477.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8734/0454/files/associated_press_sports_writing_handbook.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4695/1319/files/customer_based_brand_equity_model.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8660/9573/files/74596632096.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_off00007df3.bin
20d60b73caf4e9e5f6141eaaa2f17aac4b96c66f56504f56d95ac90af07abbf1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7DF3 5660 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009110.bin
6be0d734a1a91a75c76477cad1366f451b8f4e05d9aca3640f0ab09378015e60
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9110 10088 bytes