Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b2f0462b2b916193…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.3 KB Created: 2020-08-08 12:17:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 060feeb7149c53ff222ccb4d4942bb4b SHA-1: 213fbc9c4615a8c2b191c60f1b143c2dc58ba876 SHA-256: b2f0462b2b9161937df5d9685dac0ca5ba283be75fb9673b03ae254467633a84
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains a high number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on Shopify. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=bacteria+found+in+water+pdf', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains fragments of the URL, suggesting an attempt to disguise its malicious nature. The presence of urgency lures further supports the malicious intent of directing users to harmful content.

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=bacteria+found+in+water+pdf
    • http://files.hilltaxis.co.uk/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303359/vijepepuwiki.pdf
    • http://files.nationalhellenicsociety.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969742/5302860.pdf
    • http://files.doitforthemems.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738712/cb834c20384282.pdf
    • http://files.bournemouthjrc.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775466/ninebolavonuke_pojejo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1321/8199/files/51113685456.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5122/1143/files/84495393816.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9585/8088/files/levemilo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5072/9634/files/ap_calculus_limits_review.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0925/3281/files/66451551776.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6662/1094/files/42306486096.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3600/0931/files/interview_questions_for_bca_freshers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0806/3649/files/17086425457.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7613/0718/files/the_history_of_computer_science.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6387/8566/files/62514147371.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6858/8194/files/xotugupifofujo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5382/5694/files/84486413520.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5347/2151/files/reasons_for_absenteeism_in_the_workplace.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_off0000c660.bin
6ea7fea92a0ccbfb985d65d65f3558ae4346cc257dfaf01025d5d58cbbd9ee34
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC660 5080 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d7cf.bin
01ec3287e841b23eb23d643022415c788ad1d2afbffb2a7a6fe838a9232b6e01
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD7CF 10552 bytes