Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f3168081a45a9185…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.7 KB Created: 2020-08-05 18:30:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7dde190c7647831e23b17b1ed567de4e SHA-1: 5f305113c04077a2f7f39587ed30872ad1cc94cc SHA-256: f3168081a45a9185ba3e71deb17b31753d831c11f7e3a9c7f8ad08b5edeb0fae
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains multiple embedded links, with one heuristic specifically identifying a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be the primary lure. This URL, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=political+effects+of+globalization+in+developing+countries+pdf', is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. Another heuristic flags the document as a link farm, indicating a broad attempt to distribute malicious links.

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=political+effects+of+globalization+in+developing+countries+pdf
    • http://files.blazindancefitness.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740097/zodanexuvitolu-nekikolizejutot.pdf
    • http://files.igossuccesstech.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740625/5827483.pdf
    • http://files.jenbarbato.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303312/2317008.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3584/5017/files/nibetu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3119/1975/files/bibonofos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4750/9416/files/gallon_to_liter.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/zemivok.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7016/0032/files/algebraic_proofs_worksheet_with_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/3196/2535/files/rewabavutoxej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7367/4142/files/vopajowenaduvuzikasonaga.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2897/1681/files/mupulop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4784/4000/files/mapuxopabatotufe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6686/7362/files/sql_server_2020_alwayson_availability_groups_step_by_step.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/8740/0864/files/algebra_1_word_problems.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9714/4990/files/93832931221.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_off0000976d.bin
ba90edf06bfba1b4dc46c33af3d902a6848d0c36dd8e0e2cc7f7591504e1d96a		 pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x976D 5576 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000aa84.bin
51bf70c78095168086ab6d38211787eb23cefd44313b230721aaecef39ee48cb		 pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAA84 10124 bytes

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