Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 efdba0cadd1fb1a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB Created: 2020-08-09 03:26:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4729eab7015d25a7416c2d934729147e SHA-1: 814f3c51d85831e30e35e9addbc58c476d1eafd9 SHA-256: efdba0cadd1fb1a0a9a4e1a4b2191752b087562577f90d120dc04a4d40babf37
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=active+and+passive+voice+practice+questions+pdf'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to lure users to a potentially harmful site. Additionally, the PDF exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggesting an attempt to obscure the malicious destination or leverage legitimate platforms for distribution. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of a malicious redirector is sufficient evidence of malicious intent.

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=active+and+passive+voice+practice+questions+pdf
    • http://files.ruthbeckett.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437106/boledepose.pdf
    • http://files.carrouselmuseum.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776141/6fed3.pdf
    • http://files.villariwestboro.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070523/baxurodikobelozidofi.pdf
    • http://remij.socalsaddlery.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438641/movijodedareb.pdf
    • http://files.iamsarahstorm.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775808/fimagedur_zogakun_nilitituz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1959/0040/files/61887184027.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4994/3202/files/49608415218.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5744/6038/files/nibus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9641/6157/files/pivumasokikufidogozekuze.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6015/8873/files/nonegixolezit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0215/0557/files/73852522998.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3544/3871/files/xarijogifeku.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/9444/8030/files/gevetepafalagorozi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5942/1092/files/weviduzagaje.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2945/5271/files/41808264383.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/75555741983.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9222/9797/files/barycentre_definition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9276/2006/files/aestivation_in_animals.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2574/3515/files/xifewegoxanaj.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_off0000677f.bin
2f5722cdf062eb7de57eaabbb0a4c732479e2dda7f00863ab48c865587958c44
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x677F 5292 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007999.bin
33ce3f59a62eddf237a28fcec05508cbab4ef77ac9a01967fb9628c8fca48c05
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7999 10352 bytes