Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c3bcb9cc4acdc4c7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.7 KB Created: 2020-08-07 08:20:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9063c3840974d13122146c36e0acdb7a SHA-1: dab9f837bcd351e99d9db60b7d2628f0541d7245 SHA-256: c3bcb9cc4acdc4c769cef0ee557e740899fff8d368ca599be219d2c847bb4690
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm and a malicious redirector, indicating an attempt to lead the user to harmful content. The document body, though corrupted, contains text related to sheet music and a URL that appears to be a lure. The primary malicious URL is https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=hallelujah+choir+sheet+music+pdf, which is likely used to redirect the user to a malicious site. The presence of numerous Shopify-hosted PDF links suggests a link farm used for SEO poisoning or to obscure the final malicious destination.

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.
  • Advance-fee lottery/parcel scam lure high SE_ADVANCE_FEE_SCAM_LURE
    Document contains lottery/beneficiary or prize language together with large-value draft/funds wording and parcel/courier delivery requirements. This is a classic advance-fee fraud document shape.
  • 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=hallelujah+choir+sheet+music+pdf
    • http://files.geaugafair.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302732/bb3195e68e06362.pdf
    • http://files.pcawa.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739918/bejukabipiwome.pdf
    • http://files.baycelebrations.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681150/fonawoxoloduvewoxebo.pdf
    • http://xidulad.pumpkinandsprout.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636612/483ff.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/mulobovapu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5905/2706/files/10861651299.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4087/4408/files/xexupetozuvimufufep.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9659/5870/files/muzogobekijanobokumijozap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6742/4412/files/15481537795.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3008/4760/files/kilinarabib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5134/3269/files/changing_to_word_on_ipad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7240/6179/files/we_fly_high_lyrics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1141/5962/files/71869100316.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1375/7339/files/selexi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2398/3001/files/mujegafobane.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_off00006744.bin
ce7c645f5e10a5b374307e0a90dd27ec754ffa20c99192f1cfcace454e4ba1e0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6744 5208 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000078f9.bin
aa399e12a2b9750cc678366cf8d470d10f94a646ef8c8b8f9d3200d6276443e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78F9 10240 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009bf9.bin
a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9BF9 4324 bytes