Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 edba63ebdf83a1e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.2 KB Created: 2020-09-09 02:58:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5d985c058fec1bc28d57d7fbf6835cd2 SHA-1: 58d4feb90c26b903ab45ee7cd6a444d9b9509df1 SHA-256: edba63ebdf83a1e33a557b00e1f41843572cf92b71350728524fcd5b08e85805
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDFs. One critical heuristic firing indicates that the PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'https://ttraff.me/pify?keyword=substitution+and+income+effect+pdf'. This suggests a social engineering attempt to redirect users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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.me/pify?keyword=substitution+and+income+effect+pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3922/7047/files/powomalomu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0461/7119/files/ngk_anbae_per_anbae_audio_song.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5322/5886/files/22590196855.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2724/2906/files/quenching_and_tempering_process.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/20d83a_be3f095dc9424ca8bb5aac5e3d927001.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ee4a13_3b7c9a1e9e3d446c9fbece7bdc3667da.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e83e3481299b4288ad3cabdcf6e33d37.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f80014_e6c252db7c61458eb5bedd2ed355de8c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1d010525a98245c69b793f0c62bd073f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3e5db3_7afda856c2294534b4b224a7c3a67e0d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ba3095_0c9bbe55485a48a3a2fec1a925f5100f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3d0627_b1f2a6ff385045d38c37ac6472727be7.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9436/7649/files/70527857701.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0460/8625/8852/files/neravakobonezobenuwagasit.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_off000069e2.bin
c4a9bc6833a9c552b5f2b4dc364d6ee92bed5ed2626380282638c10625a77fa5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x69E2 5416 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007c3c.bin
820cf7cb2972988369f58c558e080438935ee223b20e78f53ead318c1c1e2cae
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C3C 10644 bytes