Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d600002daeebcb4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.9 KB Created: 2020-08-01 04:55:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fff76ea30fef322ae0f7510ac294ac5f SHA-1: 5d4cbd68573624a6d85998a5ca9ae8e2de5528ef SHA-256: 8d600002daeebcb4a7dba7222b6296e7fc92ac03942d5d3df395ad9be94d898d
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, including a critical link to a known malicious redirector at traff.cc. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'Britany spears lucky lyrics' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure for a scam. The heuristic 'SE_ADVANCE_FEE_SCAM_LURE' strongly indicates an advance-fee fraud attempt, likely by directing users to malicious sites via the embedded links.

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.
  • Advance-fee lottery/parcel scam lure high SE_ADVANCE_FEE_SCAM_LURE
    Document contains lottery/beneficiary or prize language together with large-value draft/funds wording and parcel/courier delivery requirements. This is a classic advance-fee fraud document shape.
  • 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=britany+spears+lucky+lyrics
    • http://files.ipksportsbetting.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696016/nujurigup-loluxovap.pdf
    • http://files.oldsaybrookeducationfoundation.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775137/113483625.pdf
    • http://files.margueriteperret.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776177/rumemoxege.pdf
    • http://files.herstoryhouse.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407178/2397347.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5778/3718/files/27485407183.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7328/9888/files/49746706519.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3056/1436/files/94572145749.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8310/4409/files/wonavesazonumagaroparasa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3251/8549/files/14158912168.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5361/2199/files/bikewamidojobex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7180/7391/files/nepoganefomuxapatazi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1157/8776/files/anti_fraud_policy_pdf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3141/2379/files/xuxab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5076/0357/files/66772590972.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9540/0349/files/54323056655.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_off0000ae46.bin
0fda156cf03d81368a77392484f6f1c5df3428865de603f38d7c3f29e1244296
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE46 4916 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000bf0e.bin
d8aeac3789935bb1956fc48718812e9b206968da1ad84a8b2ca14c7ca7591974
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF0E 15440 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000eeb3.bin
fb7b45e24c28c4473d0ca1c6410c593992d9a809009f9c41b5ae32c9142507dd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEEB3 16120 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0001039b.bin
05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1039B 4324 bytes