Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f1afd1b27c38107…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.8 KB Created: 2020-07-30 05:24:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 83dc33d7514073cd2559caabe28a7612 SHA-1: c042d946406872a1e7f59df5e105d307ac136bcc SHA-256: 1f1afd1b27c38107649e1b95c0c7c4e9144ee9d3c30c28b7dfd1f6fe86597817
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to malicious infrastructure, specifically identified by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a large number of external links, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. The primary malicious URL identified is ttraff.cc, which is used in conjunction with a keyword suggesting a lure for users searching for specific PDF content.

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=protozoan+parasites+of+man+pdf
    • http://files.sw-publishing.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775025/fawasujogukemuw.pdf
    • http://files.fencestile.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874360/59364eb77d4.pdf
    • http://files.larryweingarten.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856162/1246474.pdf
    • http://files.esperanzastudio.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606563/fad1c2e93.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0923/5353/files/11112328124.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7937/7830/files/50452222246.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7948/3044/files/botuwobekevibudetifut.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3161/7945/files/44609186417.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0497/6548/files/7715125289.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2353/1175/files/65506744979.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3929/2577/files/8322140123.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9227/9445/files/50460036403.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3396/0341/files/40383350384.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8151/2613/files/wuruzafu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2250/0518/files/resadegiputitiv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3750/7240/files/pisowupivorenurasanevir.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0200/3615/files/64843291953.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_off0000ab1d.bin
0a2fc9fb3be0d54fd7c9b9f244837a6ea72d602044afc27a4402735ab282237e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAB1D 4996 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000bbf6.bin
e0ac1db553af6ffd293dd69982d222859666e3f10480bc48c755b548c9b6c48e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBBF6 10072 bytes