Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d121ecb93041a4e5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.9 KB Created: 2020-08-04 21:06:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 489aa9e495408519d400159db27f7d43 SHA-1: ccd2a395a4b8102d31975dc9d7eca55fd69f5464 SHA-256: d121ecb93041a4e51f19f023d84140518672683063bdab4cea020505ec01331f
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external resources. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=mtvss+access+consciousness+pdf'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting the document's primary purpose is to redirect the user to malicious content. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to increase visibility and potential clicks.

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=mtvss+access+consciousness+pdf
    • http://files.globaltesoltraining.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775968/5715d9839636.pdf
    • http://files.paulsurreal.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383743/89b5a0a86d7486.pdf
    • http://files.pulpshoppe.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776033/d92a7c706.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4916/5734/files/magomaxidisamefu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8896/0919/files/69733179200.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5294/8901/files/gidun.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2280/3366/files/64982265573.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1645/4305/files/sefidepibodev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6674/4214/files/lefisilu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1455/3763/files/66529004567.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7316/6757/files/49849029985.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5651/2667/files/19992014985.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8180/8549/files/convert_to_zip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0973/5845/files/pumobiza.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9524/2392/files/suzixumowubuk.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_off000061be.bin
8a1552ef111df6677184bcebc3ce568e1f9c5aa0f6e20d9cfe878dd842ddbe62
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61BE 4968 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000072bc.bin
8330ded6988744a1d7b27c4fd6dd5d33fe678f7e1a63614075721bfa15345f71
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72BC 10776 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009740.bin
d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9740 4324 bytes