Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 982d0244961dceb6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.9 KB Created: 2020-08-28 06:25:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3eed66f305969222b37b4d0da7f0e0b3 SHA-1: e22d502d70ff0fccec2c7bac92be63fde35f909e SHA-256: 982d0244961dceb62eaafd8c863296199395001cd12a1950642bbc4202cd207a
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, with one heuristic specifically identifying it as a PDF link farm. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=whitman+and+dickinson, which is flagged as a known malicious redirector. The document body contains garbled text but also includes the same malicious URL, suggesting an attempt to lure users to external content.

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=whitman+and+dickinson
    • http://files.lifecoachmaurita.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813448/jebugafemav_pobalovikirex_muvefawoga.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0726/2370/files/coolmoviez_hollywood_movies_2016.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/66689816557.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4414/9150/files/78559746128.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0416/5285/files/pesunogiketagizoza.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/6374/4414/files/loss_on_inventory_write_down_balance_sheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8031/9130/files/logic_gates.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1026/8068/files/98302259794.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8466/1414/files/28835136824.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6010/9210/files/guild_wars_3.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0423/0805/files/the_big_sleep_1978.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9411/4457/files/batozasavujaxifutererojo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5083/3822/files/molotowo.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_off000067f8.bin
35524c15a3f597f304777a4f7c8d822894d9563c15594cbd1395c26137d125b9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67F8 5128 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007949.bin
b1d6bd6f81b20b132c9c9408aad26e8492ac44df426971bf183c9458681db144
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7949 9860 bytes