Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e9cae06549591211…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.8 KB Created: 2020-07-31 02:07:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 960189efd0e8f6e69678674a21a29666 SHA-1: e9b0760790f69638d13613f7fbe5acf61b08ee91 SHA-256: e9cae065495912118b620c835c75e8e6a7ffa924876f32c522b601bbd58c3775
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with one critical heuristic firing indicating a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The embedded URL is part of a lure to download a biology book, but the primary link redirects to 'ttraff.cc', a known malicious redirector. This suggests the document is designed to lead users to malicious sites, likely for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

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=elementary+biology+book+pdf+download
    • http://files.eaglecreekvet.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813317/efa3c.pdf
    • http://files.kelvynkoning.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695714/pepavu.pdf
    • http://files.consideryourselfwarned.net/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070493/dojutof_sudikom.pdf
    • http://files.aspergiannation.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132816202/bonikisikofeme.pdf
    • http://files.gilliantorckler.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874629/gomenevidi-kinepowa-xasokipa-xupuzateseroji.pdf
    • http://files.aspergiannation.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132816202/bonikisiko
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7273/2836/files/23417388955.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/70474217151.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/44628440260.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1208/8231/files/53828037777.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/3831/9527/files/vijanolitoku.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9266/3702/files/35402779193.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5395/6766/files/71039938971.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0703/2990/files/58339058369.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3630/3782/files/papolixitutenejoposaz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/kujefitil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2402/2680/files/dovepajerigag.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7373/2768/files/5083887348.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3369/8209/files/bunajafojugafatodukiwa.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_off000054ef.bin
eaf9803ecde454d32e08b9a95aa19490adf454363a0b3ebd0929e1b137aae1cf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x54EF 5328 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000670d.bin
1c0ad49f0b3410c2c0d0c2353d07850e315a799ab04ef07cd351dc6e3c1b31e9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x670D 9804 bytes