Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7af679a1a197786f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.5 KB Created: 2020-08-03 01:03:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 405ece86bb6834738de3ef4567648342 SHA-1: 1240308ec84d02a37279c7ab8cfe5805149cf967 SHA-256: 7af679a1a197786f76d50ce9469607aba753979b43d33fa385987dc4eeecab97
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=adventures+in+middle+earth+loremasters+guide+pdf'. This suggests the document is designed to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of a link farm further indicates a malicious intent to manipulate search engine results or distribute content through numerous external links.

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=adventures+in+middle+earth+loremasters+guide+pdf
    • http://files.anchoredinrowayton.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740949/gidefejanosolo_damevimoruzojok.pdf
    • http://files.hswestmi.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131436981/xabuna.pdf
    • http://files.techniquejobs.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710624/3138880.pdf
    • http://files.dentalexplorations.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740563/6b17a84f2d96.pdf
    • http://files.margarethigginson.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813582/c5e8149b11ff.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2131/0875/files/fuxewokezufod.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8742/9785/files/80836477291.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5840/5275/files/39552303317.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8658/5749/files/tosowumaweru.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6123/8168/files/75013333085.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8982/1847/files/wavodoginew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7646/0447/files/jejiwiberif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5649/5769/files/46259104687.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4065/2960/files/dorerevuvotusekorepabe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5661/0971/files/46262465324.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8305/4757/files/70016223609.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4054/6714/files/91028585592.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5651/9585/files/52667541143.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/24375498268.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_off00006c6b.bin
9ad780fcb61c9fbb9ae950649072d312cca2d53bd9e5bf69103645b80888a0cd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C6B 5504 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007f05.bin
3cb20e3bf35f1e6e4280e46b664cdd8eb80db55246395e0148d079bfb6958bb4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F05 9640 bytes