Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aef3f573eb938d8c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.3 KB Created: 2020-08-14 05:42:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3de72a191ef5b226ed8b1bd0f4ac3c73 SHA-1: 7dd47a11adb37525b59d502e084848373e3c9b40 SHA-256: aef3f573eb938d8c3d9666ebb1fd6351b892ffeddbbda710f69f7122c223898d
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, including one to a known malicious redirector, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=tales+of+symphonia+unison+attacks+guide'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to a video game guide. The presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content through seemingly benign links. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct execution behavior.

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=tales+of+symphonia+unison+attacks+guide
    • http://dukesip.aaalegacylimo.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483281/3fb8c8e4943b583.pdf
    • http://files.thegreenstheentrance.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871650/puxubejekez.pdf
    • http://lukuku.oakdalepoolservice.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776208/524a166f4e1f7b4.pdf
    • http://lozapokes.crispincampbell.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380213/4863887.pdf
    • http://files.lotusandbee.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681488/vuzotibadibomuvadur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4294/6728/files/55516615023.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7450/9213/files/absalom_absalom_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3406/7615/files/dulas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0843/4077/files/62798127355.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2052/5461/files/fijati.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/wofizafadunemewu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7995/8679/files/79310094335.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7482/8953/files/lemubivifizoxasexim.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6768/6558/files/sepultura_arise_tab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9229/5332/files/tagaz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0876/8675/files/79799006892.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5692/2778/files/kizavuzikinid.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1977/8720/files/ponana.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_off00006dc7.bin
00b7fc44d0f45c02e06c32dd9d21434d5a2b1a9f27c8a989482dc745334f60d8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6DC7 5588 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000080b5.bin
aaf378be5bc12163522e6fed0a57e8f550df58816b0fe6651826123e7431e3c3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x80B5 15016 bytes