Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f7e3da51f44b109c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.3 KB Created: 2020-08-21 17:00:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 728787cae23bc4195d24917b3383adb1 SHA-1: eaf7c239308dc8a103e9a6e48208bcabc12c2912 SHA-256: f7e3da51f44b109c17967faf2bd0f981fdb2bb5a86b84db2c2d64d3b4ba79797
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing indicating it links to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=certificate+of+incorporation+definition+pdf', which is also flagged as a malicious redirector. Additionally, the PDF hosts a large number of external links, many pointing to seemingly random PDF files on various domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute malicious content. The primary malicious URL is used to redirect the user to further malicious infrastructure.

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=certificate+of+incorporation+definition+pdf
    • http://pasosotif.dixiebengali.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874431/remefego-tiboseb-jupinimi.pdf
    • http://files.mustardfitness.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131413718/sujezaraj-vimuzuzawub-begukiwojuxu.pdf
    • http://files.carmenjuliaphotography.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681916/3fae1b0dd2.pdf
    • http://gunasudiz.columbiapresbyterianchurch.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303027/rumijezeruzu-solubuwu-zusepisobonid-jipuzenor.pdf
    • http://files.paynefieldfarm.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607522/jidapi.pdf
    • http://gunasudiz.columbiapresbyterianchurch.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303027/rumijezeruzu-solubuwu-zusepisobonid-j
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0017/6544/files/dictionary_of_language_teaching_and_applied_linguistics_1992.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5697/1432/files/zedorebumedila.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6576/1176/files/89419708961.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5732/3933/files/zedinixunoj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4658/4999/files/how_to_convert_cdr_file_to_format_online.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0067/6001/files/55773575909.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3056/9382/files/caulfield_cup_2020_form_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6150/2362/files/39251595935.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3957/1611/files/b._a._m._s_syllabus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4160/2208/files/rizagusaketidujubuselekow.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_off00005f88.bin
9a8a137ebf849f885b94e317d63992ec7afc6849807f31b264b36f9c7cf7bf18
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F88 4844 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007003.bin
b50a96580664e1d09f34fc52bd2f7b23d2461c63e66ba9a4d1c4085a8156125c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7003 10492 bytes