Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 99accef0e7330d1e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.0 KB Created: 2020-08-03 10:31:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 72930638e024439b087d5e1225765e8e SHA-1: ce9ff143e94a295bfc164bc93cf92e3a82b41c50 SHA-256: 99accef0e7330d1ef2e295574c272990aff03c74e3fc86334e1fb719b458644a
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 many pointing to a redirector service (ttraff.cc). This suggests a phishing or malicious content delivery scheme where the redirector is used to obscure the ultimate destination. The presence of a large link farm further supports this, indicating an attempt to generate traffic or distribute malicious content through numerous external references. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, limiting further analysis of the direct user-facing 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=gungeon+infuriating+note
    • http://pedewaka.literacycenterofharlingen.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453494/7651236.pdf
    • http://files.takeorffinutah.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383342/0617c62.pdf
    • http://files.hartwoodnorthfarm.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969735/86587.pdf
    • http://files.robheaslip.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132711999/sixerolawu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2634/1272/files/62029512766.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7955/7535/files/kodetivasirisebotabumusem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7589/4422/files/31680175582.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/nemevisofopanufu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0647/3886/files/12021039726.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1570/8580/files/65585899054.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9471/9131/files/5309938584.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5331/8306/files/51881237423.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3741/7891/files/kovenam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/kemisavixazesunomezixe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9735/0554/files/lujilefavokiwav.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8762/5369/files/45296785354.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4574/6838/files/mobitiwuv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/tolipokegegami.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_off0000645c.bin
8c4d68f3ce5d5fa9a3325b7fad18eff72736e1380913a468f44912c46ecc093d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x645C 4756 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000074a1.bin
363b922539aa304a68753836c914283ab14db4ea680b8a3cf0e255a44d05b002
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74A1 10088 bytes