Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aefefd09b805f1c7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.8 KB Created: 2020-08-06 09:14:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ff5c79c021066a6d10c463aecdde8949 SHA-1: cdb466d94c975bcc5c671e9fe2236021d9f11316 SHA-256: aefefd09b805f1c742c4aadda96846ccc0cc69204e4a9c520e88b4671fed3469
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=short+term+causes+of+ww1+pdf'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the redirector URL and numerous other PDF links, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute malicious content. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=short+term+causes+of+ww1+pdf
    • http://kimuxiv.roosterdaydemopolis.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070450/d2187559c5.pdf
    • http://files.spiritbearservices.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637016/3bbf2775e370ab1.pdf
    • http://files.holmeschan.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302999/617a485c44018f.pdf
    • http://files.goodshepherdinoshkosh.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738755/wexiwexabij.pdf
    • http://vuxagi.hopeofglorychristinmebriankinnett.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874631/94784baea9aa4.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5468/4565/files/jimuvupazozanixol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0147/8300/files/poxojopexoxirub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/39858795743.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5921/4501/files/vebenolamukikil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7988/3170/files/wolafutugobazopupar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5127/0823/files/bubofemut.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1219/3438/files/35439629503.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8932/1366/files/ssh_key_permissions.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7628/0729/files/38762247844.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/borutazaweluv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2818/5239/files/31120433684.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/9764/9306/files/pwn_the_sat_math_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4578/1665/files/zasiwazaletijur.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_off00006593.bin
fee3cb5200f1d7f0b148b8de354958e7194d94e6f8c58b77fee3d6ff2d893c9a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6593 5608 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007893.bin
baf5ab3e9e567100fcc5b56da4bf24dd9eb4831b07e91fcea26349a76cb9c52c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7893 9928 bytes