Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89b98e8501ae50b9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.9 KB Created: 2020-08-13 22:51:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c140dac8a4fe033bc1b0edd047c75908 SHA-1: 328fc2fd075589285ee2646accef8b2e1c6f76ac SHA-256: 89b98e8501ae50b99b1001aa6ce063b59477400a44d2b99775d1de029d3bcef2
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=free+lettering+guides+procreate'. This indicates an attempt to direct the user to a malicious site. Additionally, the PDF exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous external links, many hosted on Shopify. The presence of the 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' heuristic suggests that the document may be part of a multi-stage attack, where the user is prompted to open a password-protected archive, likely containing the actual malware payload.

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.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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=free+lettering+guides+procreate
    • http://sasine.wyntrcardigans.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814769/d481bcd396.pdf
    • http://files.epictherapyandwellness.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163859/4f48e52.pdf
    • http://files.behuninvocalstudio.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130968994/2496227.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/0292/3939/files/mitochondrial_membrane_potential.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/7154/8066/files/catlogo_jequiti_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/55166802931.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4647/8759/files/converting_to_svg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/8535/3380/files/mediheal_ac_dressing_ampoule_mask_ex_review.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7950/7880/files/7276948733.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1708/4839/files/68851358777.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5563/5871/files/81226150377.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9699/8041/files/datasheet_arduino_uno_portugues.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4923/8184/files/xawizonuxibizusuratem.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005b5f.bin
e6137c4891fc7244d6046809797d42b824088b18c3add2ee93b3e19069407f09
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B5F 5196 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006d13.bin
51ebeec29509b87aa858d500e37ac8853184703d07d1f913ce36d8e1dc7764c0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D13 1800 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000075a1.bin
2adb8497eacf8da9557b3e710ff91e1eb25204560bad6b6ea79d09c2cc7639e7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75A1 10304 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00009910.bin
796abb589046a6794b20638b8f3d5374798c86db7bc0cccf3f694680d91a7597
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9910 16192 bytes