Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bda9b63e7a2409da…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.1 KB Created: 2020-08-14 00:12:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 8eca9d84c2487180cca94978345b4895 SHA-1: ec3d93f971b0b5425d51e1d562a3f1582b8a2364 SHA-256: bda9b63e7a2409daae962578303175912933386d7a3bd047d274931568dafcb2
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a link farm and a direct link to a known malicious redirector, disguised as a performance appraisal interview example. The primary malicious URL is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=performance+appraisal+interview+example, which likely leads to further malicious content. The document's structure and embedded links suggest a phishing or social engineering attempt to redirect the user to harmful infrastructure.

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=performance+appraisal+interview+example
    • http://files.davidlynchart.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130968995/tuxemagilobi_sizebelenedufav_katobog_gakida.pdf
    • http://madoxaso.friendsofdurham.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814930/jekatixe.pdf
    • http://files.alexsbc.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776263/tokevowipaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5964/1496/files/rizagagala.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9620/2652/files/powasa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4109/4812/files/67011147760.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2194/9335/files/cessna_172p_poh.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1998/5319/files/879078862.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9128/7452/files/zizeripu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2778/4099/files/tosesejujugadesarudalopu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7369/1045/files/kuxujezidoxomawavanaz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/rixaraxamixenapo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5511/1589/files/80491886641.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2825/0781/files/zaladan.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000088bd.bin
b3669f80acf99fb8387b809d65fc41257535a12d2a6b809e4905a981e889bbe9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x88BD 3652 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000095cd.bin
f58b31102ba21cf290093786735b936ccc297d024e4ae5f3a66693ba4f111eb2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x95CD 5380 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000a814.bin
b7000a96b3ebd9304ebc99224eb0bc1d85bc9cef5edd0f42d8c7b35a57bd62c9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA814 10236 bytes