Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce12cdd67963b0e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

139.1 KB Created: 2020-08-08 07:59:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5656a040df1e69ad5f270c42911cdf3e SHA-1: 3a2152a9abfa30d2ae777731e494ca3cd06696a4 SHA-256: ce12cdd67963b0e634960c7a6ebddfa6f340b821dd4987b35e8e5fe5b35ecfbb
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The embedded URL `https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=el+cine+antonin+artaud+pdf` is identified as a malicious redirector. Additionally, the PDF contains a link farm, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute content through multiple external links. The document body itself is largely unreadable binary data, but the presence of the malicious URL is the primary indicator of malicious intent.

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=el+cine+antonin+artaud+pdf
    • http://files.grumpycookclub.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738619/dugulidafaxet-diwobisomi-fojeme-moraf.pdf
    • http://files.supervisedvisitations.net/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164488/a560642.pdf
    • http://files.smbdigitalista.events/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775342/zonosanutat_xonodesogako_regigukex.pdf
    • http://files.doorwaytodignityabuserecovery.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398555/1193432.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0923/6374/files/68374934931.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3428/0087/files/92809693843.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9246/7109/files/waneberonimisatatika.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8481/5259/files/putewubodanoj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0607/3759/files/campus_crusade_for_christ_four_spiritual_laws.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7863/1072/files/18039754409.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1961/6935/files/6504024763.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2627/6775/files/kelotuwagulenex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8833/7303/files/vuxinorimanulusul.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4814/7867/files/coelom_in_annelida.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5969/8077/files/90182724153.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5131/0488/files/75758509315.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_off0001e779.bin
2eb8982c167e9460c79b2caad45ebeacf68670e867f367251dd52b28ee68c185
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1E779 4928 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001f850.bin
8eb6427672df285d7be459c35ca44c4a783cedead9509a1584863db2c59e2612
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1F850 11512 bytes