Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b2e6eeb530c18a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.1 KB Created: 2020-08-19 15:45:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0ac24ea8729db1e96a2704486195cbc9 SHA-1: 160591e8136fa8723d9c473d603fe50915608dc4 SHA-256: 9b2e6eeb530c18a398834d8eb33dfc0a4ff7bd75e9c28585132b3e460cb47f76
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass link farm, with many links pointing to external PDFs, a common technique for SEO poisoning and distributing malicious content. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is used to obscure the final destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=alagappan+medicine+book+pdf, suggesting a lure related to a medical book search. The presence of numerous benign-looking Shopify links is likely a tactic to blend in with legitimate traffic.

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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=alagappan+medicine+book+pdf
    • http://dezifut.randiandmike.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606490/durawikavademip_lazeta_tebupowoda_lotujilo.pdf
    • http://files.vetiverandsage.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398268/zafovukefidax-kilubefetisijat-zasadono.pdf
    • http://vogeni.pctinfo.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874063/3301004.pdf
    • http://files.imperialdancecompany.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606133/d00342.pdf
    • http://susiroge.industrialcommercialdomestic.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637881/ec702f890c30879.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0189/5322/files/zunenakinif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6728/4383/files/tutije.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2688/2471/files/cambridge_primary_science_5.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7695/1974/files/medularofegotodewob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2675/0359/files/mini_international_neuropsychiatric_interview_7._0._2.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5107/1126/files/88_ball_pool_apk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/9346/4990/files/anganwadi_2019_ke_form_kab_niklenge.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9239/3640/files/mafigisinitanulib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7301/1866/files/auricularia_auricula.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/0826/6137/files/49590568703.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9802/1793/files/saworaboxomunipugemu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9825/1165/files/muwakakif.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_off00006251.bin
f38574ba93e73ed0f6664156ba23f460987677238fe11d36c5fc61e0ee485a65
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6251 5396 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007496.bin
290a4bd0ae9b3de8ec4329ba225e99d1eb853ff4d5ca966fd45d7bc8dd349572
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7496 10240 bytes