Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ad498850851475c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.1 KB Created: 2020-09-03 02:54:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: be9a20b08a50368a4b09f6eae8712c2f SHA-1: d46e327cfe54d2b722951c93403faf1de8652305 SHA-256: 1ad498850851475c788e23c09a22ff9ec93e90a68b551af9c2969032365ac4e8
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains a malicious redirector link disguised as a lure for 'important english words in tamil'. The PDF also hosts a large number of external PDF links, many pointing to Shopify, likely as part of an SEO link farm to improve search engine ranking for malicious content. The primary malicious IOC is the ttraff.link redirector, which likely leads to further malicious content.

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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.link/wix?keyword=important+english+words+in+tamil+pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0234/7168/files/vepexuwebanukuravesezifav.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1855/9393/files/23010976343.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4072/7463/files/96695842178.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3965/3030/files/comparative_and_superlative_adjectives_explanation.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0168/3873/files/bolinuwusoliwesev.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/11f207_734254cb61dd4509b278caac99eb36cc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f65518_4a97697da4524b7e9a6c1255b6310773.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9e41f0_dbb2d4a26e894ed481ce2a589295d5de.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_32975b8428db4debb5f0b5f227053f85.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/90296180399.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2067/1384/files/vufiduladafiweb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5505/3989/files/dotaxeget.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/4735/8362/files/balgeet_gujarati_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6644/2406/files/natakenititomivitenemuma.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0426/4601/files/funowanajexunu.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_off00006aba.bin
f0c89d9b4541cb9971a05b0f2eb98891792073b91100f3e27c982a6be04c074e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6ABA 5484 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007d47.bin
860a58070d621802c299524922366f2f1a0c9359eef2f48e496837f35ea8a7ec
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D47 10080 bytes