Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8fe4efc3dbd239ae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.0 KB Created: 2020-08-19 04:32:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4c3599dd4a6d457be3f34fe2c1f50853 SHA-1: a743cdb3e9aa6f8f94fbd208e8df29dd81f1f4ee SHA-256: 8fe4efc3dbd239ae3308e3f82ecdecb5f2f2234100ae7510eeb7d8da2aae59ee
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=academic+vocabulary+in+use+pdf+chomikuj'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The file also contains a link farm, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute various documents, some of which may be malicious. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of a malicious redirector is sufficient to classify this as a malicious document.

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=academic+vocabulary+in+use+pdf+chomikuj
    • http://files.lauracarolyn.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814644/rexozemivadon.pdf
    • http://files.ourconsciousconnection.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381518/da89c5.pdf
    • http://files.sweetgenesis.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775635/d120827fc5.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3587/6776/files/jaquar_sanitaryware_price_list_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1517/5317/files/dejoxexejimela.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2379/2285/files/30429671490.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/8301/7895/files/accounts_payable_procedures.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6618/6135/files/14031250305.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6747/2037/files/answering_service_translate_in_spanish.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7355/1001/files/night_vision_command_minecraft.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/44329390643.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7387/2807/files/nccn_guidelines_bladder_cancer.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5769/1289/files/advanced_computer_architecture_parallelism_scalability_programmability_kai_hwang.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8937/1040/files/kubalalugisanilesabojo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4390/3905/files/allen_major_test_papers_download_2020_neet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7586/9599/files/82398953418.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8131/1132/files/zozixarojamux.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_off00004d1b.bin
15d07ce94038c9438a1d02c7c64afe4939493d366ed212c3fd92a1fc2aa09385
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4D1B 5824 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000060c6.bin
523fe765bc1c44469e6e7ccad3b1134dde083e3ad2a3c695b2b4638f68da8d28
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60C6 8888 bytes