Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 97464f05f87647ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.7 KB Created: 2020-08-25 03:23:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 46c1578822ab600fa8e123044101c912 SHA-1: 259269114030688514bcb208ec0637b5805ca710 SHA-256: 97464f05f87647ee22696952311c532aba0a0776708bd66039e1ea509fb2c0c1
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, which is also present in the document body. This link, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=infested+salvage+guide', is likely intended to lead the user to a malicious site. The PDF also contains a link farm heuristic, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute links broadly.

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=infested+salvage+guide
    • http://serixe.studioandstage.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969352/1190649.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8014/6339/files/magic_bullet_reviews_consumer_reports.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4073/5381/files/13451784164.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8660/1635/files/64611954025.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9589/1871/files/72544678085.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6512/2720/files/winokozepuginonid.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3355/9203/files/built_in_functions_in_python.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2398/3015/files/38054166348.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7241/4106/files/pronoun_or_determiner_worksheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8548/6485/files/nesebugozotirevukegev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2583/3882/files/37584745316.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7650/9080/files/48402713683.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/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3355/9203/files/built_in_functions_i

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000751d.bin
76a443be588e3491ce5b0c7017faf1c1baa7732f5eabb3b40d753603b0dd30c5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x751D 4976 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008620.bin
3238f41908bab399c70980b6661aab9833816d8bd82ea81d14666631b4c8b2dd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8620 10488 bytes