Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd6c020fc1650405…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.9 KB Created: 2020-08-13 04:46:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 95003e0a3a15e4e4eea7bd7de56c1318 SHA-1: d1b3897a8993ba45f38d3fec907453420e6338b7 SHA-256: fd6c020fc1650405cbec7c3d36c0e846b14ced96aeaebf5967628bab028c0d5b
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external resources. One critical heuristic firing indicates that the PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=assessment+of+communication+and+interaction+skills+acis+pdf'. Another critical heuristic identifies this as a PDF link farm, with 28 external PDF links detected. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains the same malicious redirector URL and several benign-looking Shopify URLs, suggesting a lure to a malicious site.

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=assessment+of+communication+and+interaction+skills+acis+pdf
    • http://files.mullermgt.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379395/1050696.pdf
    • http://files.pellikancportfolio.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381095/e8f4b.pdf
    • http://files.kbesq.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681392/542691.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4865/7318/files/monosulijanadudumolinak.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1725/4565/files/the_secret_bankers_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1906/7815/files/sumoruledidaluteka.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0635/9714/files/safowasu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3956/2651/files/xibasaxej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4189/7113/files/bavapeloxitujegejofipimil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1574/0312/files/rofilefebupepa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2446/3525/files/29668360759.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6444/0472/files/marakisuwomusevesiwune.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1452/0995/files/lawakefamuxokuzufonejibil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2846/1206/files/88789913879.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000064db.bin
c80b935bb2e72fbf0bb54bead4dcf673e2ee9ff5a06d35ab91e29c0786333a85
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64DB 1696 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006d05.bin
f59506ef54bf03c840fba590ba46b060e1f796fccd5d86b1d02ef6df416ec0e6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D05 5356 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00007f24.bin
f39482f4f161f91a2ae80f8e1766573fa27394c2d3ab683109b04d344a72b9dc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F24 10168 bytes