Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c9965167275893e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.6 KB Created: 2020-09-01 14:07:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 103b502c812b904e2d262f26326e7f4c SHA-1: ca550fe44d6a96ca917c4e8279217f953c008cc9 SHA-256: c9965167275893e395ced4804d8ed9db3d5b1ce69c31d02a3a781ca56dae687f
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a redirector, which is associated with malicious activity. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text fragments suggesting a lure for 'hotstar premium mod crack apk'. The PDF also contains a mass external link farm, indicating a potential SEO poisoning or spamming campaign. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=hotstar+premium+mod+crack+apk.

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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/wix?keyword=hotstar+premium+mod+crack+apk
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/68ec51_9b9563097fe845518053d2b156902419.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/51c472_d8690de11af84b2fb6aea4a81792cadc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e33828_dd5bc9df465d4d28bcbea23aa9050da6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9b33c5_402c382e31c24b6e923bd3d56af3a8de.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3fb742_8b0c0c8997fc404ca68989c00bc7e001.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/455f95_327508ac7f83458e910bc5583b9a4a18.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f09a9d_564ca1eb7bb34360b3362c7fe4a0ba7b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e2c250_601de7044199462bb0187dcd2f45292b.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0134/0319/files/lego_architecture_studio_21050.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3767/7989/files/nosarim.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7671/3637/files/47390651034.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/3099/5095/files/wudobexupejoso.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_off00006f98.bin
133302b5b9c8c4e3f6322b4c34d8e28b36ca3d0702c238b00ad2f80501b4a4dc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F98 5212 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000813a.bin
a4c9a2c8bc767ff14512e64a9a9b584c9174b3dcc1778aa88621e354d4ac88f1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x813A 10592 bytes