Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9fcd6f2b489f6be4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.7 KB Created: 2020-08-21 06:33:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5d57dec83494bb11c5bbdd8b127bf0ef SHA-1: 606fa337418d7a39b3160acd99b7b8a443a4fdb1 SHA-256: 9fcd6f2b489f6be439e6f7e88b533c6f6d0dd1d69991209d858f64cb244e64d9
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file exhibits characteristics of a link farm, containing numerous external links, many of which point to PDF files hosted on various domains. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is likely used to obscure the final malicious destination. The presence of the 'bully for android netblog' keyword in the redirector URL suggests a potential lure for Android-related malware. No scripts were extracted, but the extensive link farm and the malicious redirector strongly indicate an attempt to distribute malware or engage in SEO abuse.

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.com/pify?keyword=bully++for+android+netblog
    • http://zezel.nykpart.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383775/zatobotisegetememet.pdf
    • http://joxusap.hiltonsls.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/bifexiwiduxalel.pdf
    • http://files.gustafjackson.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378771/xetedotatalaxi_ziriwaba_fifiviri_kerezikosopenuv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2802/9345/files/geometrical_tolerances_definition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4095/5803/files/lawuso.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9033/7189/files/94943077631.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8131/0101/files/house_rental_agreement.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9064/8994/files/6203316542.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0369/6536/files/collections_in_java_with_examples.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4462/5822/files/61564776032.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7917/2257/files/despacito_lyrics_video.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8777/3342/files/1613660842.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0773/5969/files/seek_thermal_imaging_camera_android.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/kofuf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/2768/5525/files/interpretivist_approach_to_qualitative_research.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7318/4678/files/34364469384.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_off000068fb.bin
0283ac1ce58cb544716139e14a9b0a82af32fbcabcca9c37758d50c563efe814
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x68FB 5188 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007abb.bin
e7a223623fdadd97f8b2024543544cbbfee4940886ea9979d8e88e330932d16c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7ABB 10452 bytes