Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b1b01ffa63a159c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.8 KB Created: 2020-08-19 05:43:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 56404eaec30dde439ddcd0c9bfe0d51e SHA-1: e8a427ade813de1ef88526dd9b4a9c5988d50ed7 SHA-256: b1b01ffa63a159c9be8bbd2ca90eca5aabc37b2d82e0cccac98c7afca7224678
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a redirector service, disguised as interview preparation material. The redirector URL is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=answering+interview+questions+format. The PDF also hosts a large number of links to other PDFs, likely for SEO manipulation to improve search engine ranking for 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.cc/pify?keyword=answering+interview+questions+format
    • http://files.karereviews.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379833/447298c31cee.pdf
    • http://files.islammuslimcyprus.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383619/zewalaregojamen.pdf
    • http://sufepob.lakesideschnauzers.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637047/wadizorusunovim-xenimefosita-jotozere-salifixowapuso.pdf
    • http://files.corderovasquezlab.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739835/xasapo.pdf
    • http://zakavu.kevincardiffcollection.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409090/1549452.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2891/4074/files/brastemp_inverse_max_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4449/3720/files/medical_examination_form_for_canada_immigration.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3239/6447/files/gilosolipurof.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0459/1635/6757/files/3726447623.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5732/2903/files/mit_license_text.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4469/9288/files/free_zoology_books_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2648/0295/files/designing_data_intensive_applications.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/taniseraguvifololesugom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2603/9463/files/85663701917.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2826/6654/files/mexodoru.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/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/ta

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000646c.bin
0eee0c717c3fd98372df3d2c2f281b74e80190b34768fce79aa1701b8120bcef
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x646C 3304 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007052.bin
d3d8942dca2acbacb4c5e1538f4bfb5a42eb5504ab2e3f3e5a1f9cf48511e984
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7052 5320 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00008266.bin
96cc4799eaf59c4feae130efce19a47260e10c6ef20ef434b7cade1472f46ca4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8266 10224 bytes