Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 82eb5110d38f1f6b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.3 KB Created: 2020-08-17 13:49:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 45d4662cab9ecfe576cc1a7c775bce39 SHA-1: ffabc61680977d684e8e6cf6ed2e4f0278a2631a SHA-256: 82eb5110d38f1f6b53aa6e27b40cfb9650cf784bbdfd34b2ba4f0c1b55d69202
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK, indicating it points to known malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be a lure for 'important english synonyms and antonyms pdf'. This URL redirects to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=important+english+synonyms+and+antonyms+pdf', which is a known malicious redirector. The file also contains a PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic, suggesting it's part of a larger campaign to generate traffic through numerous 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=important+english+synonyms+and+antonyms+pdf
    • http://fesoluja.anarosasanchez.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453574/05fbec3.pdf
    • http://files.freshvision.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378942/116310.pdf
    • http://files.scarletleafreview.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606069/tuwadugatasoz.pdf
    • http://files.valeriaflorescano.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454106/fesizotogopoduf_fugopisivamu_dawivolokixi_kapopazare.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7311/9143/files/fundamentals_of_plant_virology.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5058/1662/files/american_psycho_movie_script.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7079/9516/files/83309410712.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6564/7002/files/5463997487.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4295/4661/files/xopipitofepe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0032/3478/files/38571931250.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8731/4585/files/ramepakodanuzupav.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1445/3410/files/khasi_song_2019.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6797/4556/files/wateraxodisobolonove.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9110/7742/files/xixopu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0306/7044/files/lok_sabha_election_2020_date_in_up.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8713/3860/files/49750408737.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_off00007e54.bin
5124078c49d13739ddd6c8955a8c808ee9255e1a49341f05befeaa159ae6b060
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E54 5492 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000090d1.bin
045cf03bec6332a0fdb1b6f1e1f7d99a1044747170a7059ec146cd3ccebaa351
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x90D1 10320 bytes