Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7ec6a3732a56f1bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.3 KB Created: 2020-08-04 17:03:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 74001e05a7c2d8551c07d99174e99b99 SHA-1: 54cb00d13176cab69537349d1d02aba6df74f825 SHA-256: 7ec6a3732a56f1bcd0c14ac8dd18eaaf7bd707c6db2ec4a89e81459813604db5
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service known to host malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains URLs that appear to be part of a link farm designed to attract traffic. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=localized+and+delocalized+bonding+in+organic+chemistry+pdf, which is used to redirect users to other potentially harmful sites. This suggests a social engineering attack aiming to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure.

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=localized+and+delocalized+bonding+in+organic+chemistry+pdf
    • http://files.absolutealphacm.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380175/nataduxov.pdf
    • http://files.lanecovetheatrecompany.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681851/banefegemijef.pdf
    • http://files.totallyrendang.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383743/a45309e1.pdf
    • http://files.jazoot.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814353/eec6622f10aa4e.pdf
    • http://files.stitchesbylynsey.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381706/zadezima.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1903/2987/files/fipuzoxizu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4095/4773/files/uky_edu_canvas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1304/5398/files/starbucks_beverage_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1751/8751/files/nixasapawalu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1249/7312/files/vidaxixitomopobigu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5007/4269/files/widaxexabigubiximibew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9861/2636/files/52969587003.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1222/7225/files/26177823083.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7113/6154/files/66612156312.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4488/1059/files/rujiwomedekikakalowiw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7956/5465/files/masunadadowiv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9712/0151/files/dungeon_crawl_stone_soup_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0935/9517/files/93917727382.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005893.bin
13b6ff658264b2e2b6a238a269424de30853a5073b7e544db8cdec26d8f4d280
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5893 5592 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006b60.bin
7491c85ea34ce74e35cf393f353559187290840f047b3487ffd070173d130ed5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B60 9968 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00008d77.bin
0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8D77 4324 bytes