Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a1bf8cb20cfb2ec…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.8 KB Created: 2020-08-10 08:47:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4ec3e3eece440127b62e1501eb7ccb5c SHA-1: 2b5e82381003f2b7864dd446c11f6e02e609a4c9 SHA-256: 9a1bf8cb20cfb2eca36fd15024da4b0c84fb08b1a8bc6d65601765e9d309739b
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, a technique commonly used in SEO link farms to drive traffic to malicious sites. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=difference+between+general+and+local+anesthesia+pdf'. The document body, though partially corrupted, suggests a lure related to medical information, aiming to disguise the malicious intent. The presence of many links, including those pointing to Shopify domains, indicates a broad distribution effort.

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=difference+between+general+and+local+anesthesia+pdf
    • http://xakurulub.steppingstonesplaycenter.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070146/cf598080.pdf
    • http://files.hillscac.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607075/wiziwinazoralazutul.pdf
    • http://fejus.langfordlab.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302782/2903468.pdf
    • http://rewune.helpfulmeditation.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814229/8145fde8b.pdf
    • http://files.solidrockmasons.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070152/bezizu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9059/2422/files/sat_punctuation_practice.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/73930450062.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1174/2628/files/jipubavijunuzisuvugerufup.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6710/4664/files/63426311288.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0485/2386/files/microsoft_70_680.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2859/4336/files/a_practice_grammar_of_german.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3686/8762/files/videopad_5._03_registration_code.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1392/2206/files/pibofigi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9568/7328/files/86085882824.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0610/7552/files/how_to_read_journal_articles_in_the_social_sciences.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1312/8863/files/33358380597.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2399/7856/files/lajeniwesavulopofuvas.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_off00008f54.bin
37a1d38948e43f94328ab6a1265e44b7f92d3e08529ef5affc112be8c6f52ddf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8F54 5648 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a29a.bin
60c41849ac9c0118bce6808b9060aa9dc2baaca0ab24d6bc81e12dd8ca1e01d3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA29A 10296 bytes