Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dfe6bb7669eff0e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.2 KB Created: 2020-08-10 01:57:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9075e01e7fa9297968dbb2db4cdaccfd SHA-1: 66f3261c66f24c393bdb733fb3de7b5ae52e567b SHA-256: dfe6bb7669eff0e6f5da193215ce9daea731d5a58d6ad1a7dd36194b183a7249
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is likely used to obscure the final destination of the malicious payload. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL that triggered the heuristic, suggesting a lure to download further content. The presence of numerous external PDF links also indicates a link farm strategy, likely for SEO poisoning or to distribute malicious content.

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=jurnal+gerak+fototropisme+pdf
    • http://files.4-ucorp.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739567/7385382.pdf
    • http://files.kickitlivingweekly.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871614/tilivalaxazu.pdf
    • http://files.poultryserviceassociation.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740257/minuborifejuzexegi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8820/6238/files/balance_druid_bis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5556/2398/files/6335653779.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7590/3383/files/amar_ujala_news_paper_lucknow_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1926/2357/files/42618859219.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/66541571973.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2100/9053/files/wixanadelikejixebuxudetug.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0580/3687/files/7376369536.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4296/3613/files/wwe_ringtone_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/tovovowegafakaroseras.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6768/6556/files/14145736076.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3791/7345/files/noledopatevoraraju.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_off00004df9.bin
7e5d9b83a0b053cf2bcff86f47e1b057bd561ade4a467be0d3b0fd9c926cc190
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4DF9 5416 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006055.bin
9630771c422884b52c4be37c1c7d850744589d620a3545b696531915f791f310
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6055 10832 bytes