Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc3bb3de50d3b794…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.0 KB Created: 2020-08-23 03:00:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 650ee0525f106f1271e8153248033696 SHA-1: 4f24c84ceb1e498def183bd830eed32a50ee0e96 SHA-256: cc3bb3de50d3b7947e270f100feed16e4dedddf54affc2d96a7d8a1c82871369
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=philips+tv+manual+tuning'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious infrastructure. Additionally, a PDF link farm heuristic suggests the document is part of a larger SEO poisoning effort to distribute malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same lure text and URLs.

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=philips+tv+manual+tuning
    • http://misinepal.silverfernevents.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874063/timofuruzek_fedat_kudinixotonune.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4773/7754/files/jurnal_asma_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6508/9949/files/shadow_clone_gungeon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5470/3526/files/7536445342.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0890/7688/files/bitemawaz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6761/2067/files/48786011713.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0160/8353/files/84391761218.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/0204/0217/files/imperialismo_europeo_siglo_xix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1021/9432/files/gapalisaro.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9772/5864/files/sesowafeximo.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_off00005334.bin
5eaa791b26af88e79bf64a14f1ee65c861c6c9a6c20c466db108a459ec909889
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5334 5200 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000064c4.bin
9bfece600618fc3b221b6cb86ec6122736c4b3ed032d05cac4e033f04483e04b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64C4 10424 bytes