Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 818bc0e7d5349362…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.1 KB Created: 2020-08-05 02:50:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3e9ee0ee080f49918f074f0880ee48a1 SHA-1: 2a79a0ab38639f7574d704f42f13cb938b5e079e SHA-256: 818bc0e7d5349362f64f231326c00c928d5f9986bb2a8872aa2b4a9e4d21a8dc
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains multiple embedded URLs, with a primary redirector identified as 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=nomenclatura+de+alcanos+iupac+pdf'. This URL is flagged as malicious, indicating a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the redirector URL and other Shopify-hosted PDFs, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to drive traffic to malicious sites. The presence of numerous external links, many pointing to Shopify domains, further supports the link farm hypothesis.

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=nomenclatura+de+alcanos+iupac+pdf
    • http://files.austintxtherapists.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813846/binupamis.pdf
    • http://files.neworleansmidwives.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453232/5845400.pdf
    • http://files.lookitschris.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438211/gejibewomepivalov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1829/7245/files/89405488484.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7388/0739/files/78373412794.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4547/7783/files/42824822460.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6317/2502/files/body_beast_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9180/3801/files/reading_and_writing_targets_3_student_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5289/1298/files/50658194098.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9359/0170/files/rudukisop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/rerisorajomowuba.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5276/9192/files/83420919507.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6318/9412/files/90796415616.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4814/7867/files/medebupabosenimukikada.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8201/4108/files/nusadusi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7767/1843/files/82049438940.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/85947343199.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_off00006acb.bin
71c5520d14885f1b5104b244fcf9789abc1c4d023fe227be6070d8161f2fa451
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6ACB 5268 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007ca1.bin
4dd6304366bd6d9d61297d56ded4878ec99db660526f1d5b74524fcec14ca8a9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CA1 11960 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000a2f8.bin
fd989a4419e9118b30f0d796880f622292a9baae154206e7e7dcd06c22f904a9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA2F8 17884 bytes