Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c6be3780b0c3769…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.0 KB Created: 2020-08-30 19:12:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fd6ccd66bc3372ad6f8275df967c2cca SHA-1: 52944ea692815f19ad11a03dbca7f57fe957ed25 SHA-256: 8c6be3780b0c37692cc53ca97eec3d1728a65f5af92508fe50defa4bdad73c84
140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to contain keywords related to educational materials, suggesting a lure to entice users to click the malicious links. The primary malicious link identified is https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=neco+gce+biology+practical+past+ques, which is flagged as a malicious redirector. The presence of numerous benign-looking PDF links hosted on CDNs suggests an attempt to blend malicious activity with legitimate-looking content.

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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns
  • 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.com/wix?keyword=neco+gce+biology+practical+past+ques
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1704dd35a41148099ccebb10aa52a13f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2d8de324a7ad4c1e9be21432f537f8eb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2274a7_fe2f2338a31d4ec5829364df8f6c13e7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f46427_eeaa8c25279140c8b53494ea9854aa9e.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/gifowugebivagobawogun.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2358/0830/files/gatixenomeniwogakoxudok.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/0806/0574/files/caracteristicas_de_los_plasticos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3588/5725/files/49339575070.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8562/6520/files/16208653382.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8195/6518/files/cestodes_and_trematodes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3309/1496/files/1612746566.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9791/3512/files/rekixukuzibudef.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c76d37e2515a4a21b7f32e3888465f3a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ffa12ee5377f485da8a81c9155322505.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/89363e_0ff14ce35ef44931b8cf33bb3307b01e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cf79db_48a3bac6cce64a09b146272c573baefa.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_off0000693a.bin
31d8351761f0ecc77f7254e5c1ee1b25459fa393995394451ee5c09fed9d1c11
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x693A 5440 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007bcc.bin
e05dc37d761fc825cdbe5ff212e0095c100bf90bd92df56cf5b10b9bfe2aa0df
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BCC 10348 bytes