Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d5d9027e29187a5b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

32.7 KB Created: 2020-08-09 23:33:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7ad6c2d2edc900ab4d6666189cf2129c SHA-1: 35d8d40a1d350fac164ea874d016701d3a0155cd SHA-256: d5d9027e29187a5bf8f9ce6755dcf76b7bf11ae3b6b9a9e3d33f1771e7460de7
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm, with one critical heuristic firing indicating a malicious redirector. The primary malicious URL, https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=cantonment+board+act+1924+pakistan+pdf, is designed to redirect the user to further malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to this URL and other potentially malicious links, suggesting a phishing or redirection attempt.

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=cantonment+board+act+1924+pakistan+pdf
    • http://malob.thebeautyhouseofl.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696030/0c9fe89d6be.pdf
    • http://files.kpadron.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636828/5243052.pdf
    • http://files.jessicaelkayam.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382673/fc26c220d7.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4488/1059/files/lovogunusaz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6191/1458/files/54049300209.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6397/5835/files/wukog.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0209/3987/files/73256069013.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6626/9600/files/6365595640.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9508/9559/files/aldehydes_and_ketones_and_carboxylic_acids.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4669/8146/files/wifawuxujogixemudaxig.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6491/8165/files/japolimeneduxixarogoso.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5241/7703/files/sadoponotilesugoposoxaru.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0885/2117/files/18838823873.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0609/1673/files/35968772836.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9266/2688/files/48332095181.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_off00004425.bin
513b223396c38f70f3eef6e6b2f5495e96cc01175cb42460e7a3d140fa50ddee
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4425 5804 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000057d2.bin
c1cc8d877a776e04633c2325fb68de2c63b8b77986266ccf9ae62d57a77986f8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x57D2 8852 bytes