Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 896a7500d6cb714a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.0 KB Created: 2020-08-19 08:15:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 8633d50f8b66b1b34be8a9dfd581dd2a SHA-1: 6fb63fb0fd88ebab25202060edf83ad6dc322f1c SHA-256: 896a7500d6cb714a05d3f2e19b8ce91de760f450acc83218d279ed68769150de
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with many links pointing to Shopify domains and one critical link to a known malicious redirector. The redirector URL is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=camera+raw.+8bi++cs6, which likely serves as a lure to download further malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this same redirector URL and several benign-looking PDF links, suggesting a social engineering attempt to trick users into clicking the malicious link.

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=camera+raw.+8bi++cs6
    • http://files.threeringrascals.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740586/kogaritaxibopajipe.pdf
    • http://kenetadu.mcjpgs.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873791/7324029.pdf
    • http://gusofogig.nardamohammed.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775075/73f6a38f.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8247/1837/files/kopebesedirimupifikez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3624/5142/files/65577986419.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6808/7711/files/mean_median_and_mode_of_grouped_data_worksheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4302/7109/files/sosekeraladewatapo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8221/1735/files/54232343305.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1692/0996/files/60409967032.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8904/3358/files/98399889597.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1143/8752/files/83573688844.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2191/0687/files/24192680027.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4865/5265/files/active_passive_example.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6290/9335/files/14258051364.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5081/8981/files/45981161368.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_off0000626f.bin
ab4c4a4b94eae5f730bca60de0aae2005f41fa4aa8bab941d0f45850786e5ee8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x626F 5428 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000074e5.bin
f0d747f65d306d203496195e86f0327c3f6b9db2312e6c380d83c60109092b9b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74E5 13672 bytes