Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f730f70a2735491…

MALICIOUS

PDF

68.2 KB Created: 2020-08-08 23:41:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4b67a3b46d6b2806f98fa137ab01526b SHA-1: fa34f3ef7958d59cc673c5fc8508db0df76cb56b SHA-256: 8f730f70a27354919bc19a7fb5e67e7ea8993e7636469a64b734b11e19060cb3
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to `https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=acids+and+bases+grade+12+questions+and+answers+pdf`. This URL is presented within the document body, disguised as a link to educational content. The PDF also contains a link farm heuristic, indicating a large number of external links, with `https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7274/8710/files/aggregate_testing_methods.pdf` being the first listed. The primary intent appears to be social engineering users into visiting the malicious redirector.

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=acids+and+bases+grade+12+questions+and+answers+pdf
    • http://files.belaccommunications.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437158/9955582.pdf
    • http://files.keithgriffithssquash.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379409/vixedaxomimuziw_xuped.pdf
    • http://files.corrythepsychic.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407227/duwopib_jesesinasarijuv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7274/8710/files/aggregate_testing_methods.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6556/3541/files/acatech_industrie_4._0.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6013/3031/files/benefits_of_virtualization_in_cloud_computing.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0134/8255/files/11207925286.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9422/6584/files/noduzowalasimidid.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7586/1656/files/narrative_report_for_ojt_sample.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/59022585862.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6871/8242/files/webabapem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9279/4774/files/78272065829.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/1261535930.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1991/7717/files/que_es_calicata.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7476/5475/files/34475308464.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_off0000c410.bin
74f66da7db625937cab8ad79cede3d1938cb03bc12207622a405e95705e7778b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC410 5820 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d800.bin
50d833eac0126235af02721694fe9d22a7dfee569a1ca657d31eda56ac5c0f57
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD800 13728 bytes