Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bf928ae7054cfd29…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.6 KB Created: 2020-08-10 02:53:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4f827080ba54e02d2dfcb13834dcc26f SHA-1: 2bf65c640a9f233f77322f32e1866aa9d3c67108 SHA-256: bf928ae7054cfd29910628b53e84f585ed32fa326334a56382203950bff3c10e
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to `https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=the+arrangers+of+marriage+short+story+pdf`. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF SEO link farm, embedding numerous external links, many of which point to Shopify domains. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains the malicious redirector URL and several benign-looking Shopify PDF links, suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. 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=the+arrangers+of+marriage+short+story+pdf
    • http://files.uplyftelectronics.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739504/192ab8a5a89.pdf
    • http://files.aquaticclub.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384429/tibafemidaxod.pdf
    • http://files.choosejoyanyway.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873732/d9d632d.pdf
    • http://files.ucporegon.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695629/633609.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9823/4270/files/mijidalatoxuzivem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5005/0460/files/36314293010.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7818/8198/files/the_boyfriend_bracket.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3605/5454/files/land_claim_block_7_days_to_die.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/26965864763.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1405/4300/files/c_create_folder_if_not_exists.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0745/1029/files/english_business_letters_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4160/2198/files/cookie_clicker_import_codes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8717/4557/files/67225096816.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5633/9871/files/mogizofopekuzefidur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9488/4000/files/dowak.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5729/9097/files/17815709999.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_off00007450.bin
80676344b856356d409c4880e6144b375cf38bc203d8696f70ceac137ac8dace
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7450 5476 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000086cf.bin
a1665523491d11fb4bca130f8ee43106411153ea66d5c998fa67ee16f5a553b5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x86CF 10160 bytes