Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8860d68e1e85678d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.6 KB Created: 2020-08-13 22:51:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1031fe48410eed6083bf645b691dc195 SHA-1: 6d81e13e05be5d76273d497f117833d3295a083d SHA-256: 8860d68e1e85678d99ac9beebb79a8cb43a3162922cf36313c4b2ffbcb1534ea
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, which is also present in the document body. The document also contains a heuristic for a 'browser extension installation lure', indicating a social engineering attempt. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm used to distribute malicious content or phish for credentials. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=best+android+emulator+mac+2019, which likely serves as a redirector to a malicious site.

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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=best+android+emulator+mac+2019
    • http://files.mikekleeman.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437669/99d318bf4.pdf
    • http://wosip.pbi-global.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813332/numapodol_xuvupaxejefa_bojotetupafaj.pdf
    • http://xezedala.deloraineanglican.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130774982/juvivukogu.pdf
    • http://pozebi.berelaxedmn.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380213/9064601.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3945/7431/files/73529679184.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0086/3643/files/18397712671.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1304/4386/files/introduction_to_combinatorial_mathematics_c_l_liu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5428/5479/files/1134079018.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7727/1716/files/online_dating_consultant.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8233/3856/files/weekly_schedule_sheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8714/3839/files/92760060446.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5162/2306/files/zasutowirazodumurebun.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9477/8791/files/nowupakomavar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/1522/8839/files/mathematical_logic_for_computer_science_lu_zhongwan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/favubedezemopazejive.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4677/2646/files/91184547535.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0386/1416/files/12565432742.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_off00006fa1.bin
6932a7e97863990c03769b2ce3a4eebebff100c0ccdb0b562e382e8e31732b9b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FA1 5616 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008296.bin
5761fb160c51fe37d2e2004f1ee24d2721245a0f085bd18d865ee3c631af040c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8296 10196 bytes