Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e0fd7b778728f7d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.5 KB Created: 2020-09-01 08:45:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 485b242e1311fa6b9d39361bcd5bb585 SHA-1: 530c4471029b1448cb42dce3353a407dd2aeab32 SHA-256: 1e0fd7b778728f7d8139bacc4ec62f6fa4806ec2927e2ad48139c47899fe8854
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL, suggesting it is the primary lure. The file also contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, which is characteristic of SEO link farm techniques used to obscure malicious redirects. The primary malicious URL is the most critical IOC.

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/wix?keyword=expanding+and+factorising+quadratics+worksheet+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cc089a_f4338e6192844531b2fbcfb8387940b7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b58d21_2093446742b847779c0d1579eb9ae23e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c63dba_967b59b1f8524ca8a70518ea0da9ae35.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0455/6242/9605/files/xiragutajada.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0043/0746/files/android_one_9_pie_release_date.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8152/1560/files/ferokenekekeni.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9341/7383/files/cultivos_agroecologicos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5085/2762/files/4710288992.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7128/4135/files/37383492735.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5282/5750/files/zilixerobaguwuxakobe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9328/7331/files/kuvadobawipe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/21511039237.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0956/3029/files/real_book_5th_edition.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_off00005b86.bin
db4a84e2a6d3d90562f2e0a2e911849db83d9435ca6c9e446457ba7b0d19173a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B86 5692 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006efb.bin
2e57cc48007036d653fb786fe9e59d90efaa4c8f74f7da4f85e94f914735f578
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6EFB 13284 bytes