Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ddaf18635b1c778a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.5 KB Created: 2020-08-08 15:44:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7a55e80a2a51065ee3a2d43625f8e606 SHA-1: c3b431d2a009a7e90f44b67453f4347aea0614f1 SHA-256: ddaf18635b1c778a864844eaba019cba67504f42168b3f2befe59762bd6d30be
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDFs, a technique often used for SEO poisoning or to obscure malicious redirects. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is used to lure users with the promise of 'behavioural sciences mcqs with answers pdf'. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of the malicious redirector and the link farm strongly suggests a phishing or malware delivery 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.cc/pify?keyword=behavioural+sciences+mcqs+with+answers+pdf
    • http://moxoworal.penngradconsulting.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378776/nururakopuvavifobaf.pdf
    • http://files.thedanceforumsouth.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303009/jugemotusoju-rofasebipudav-pikumit.pdf
    • http://files.ps173q.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437984/nizuxofifezux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5430/9280/files/murop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1405/4300/files/33115765960.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3477/1610/files/xubekudebit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5662/5829/files/38359924449.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4528/2214/files/bemesezusexon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7589/4437/files/asia_physical_map.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8154/7417/files/85280862858.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2181/1364/files/14829657165.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6009/9222/files/economic_boom_definition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0857/3085/files/capability_maturity_model_journal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5066/3062/files/zefirelavebesonumipubige.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5216/2462/files/sefug.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8380/0474/files/bellman_ford_algorithm_python.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2502/2621/files/mepap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8907/6117/files/68271138881.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_off0000c536.bin
d11a14f20314b61fbfa39288dd0fc8f3451987dfa33c6a4d1ee7513d0a73f27d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC536 5720 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d897.bin
37dc5b459c60049f075cf465ef2ea9b76952b10c170b746091344c0f22f5e290
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD897 12312 bytes