Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 255fc86ba51ba6e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.2 KB Created: 2020-08-01 06:00:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 70b8cd1e0b26b8451476b546d3bf3447 SHA-1: ce5844b9665f10e9ab93c827a29355b3ae114e9a SHA-256: 255fc86ba51ba6e9771c47ca17a3031def0673ea0313994a26d9edcdbe51ad42
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, a technique often used for SEO poisoning or to redirect users to malicious sites. One of the primary links points to a known malicious redirector, 'ttraff.cc', which is designed to obscure the final destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the redirector URL and other PDF links hosted on Shopify. This suggests a campaign to drive traffic to 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.cc/pify?keyword=ffmpeg+mp4+to+mp3
    • http://files.racewood.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380322/2327714.pdf
    • http://files.fmm-mysg.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739043/3258823.pdf
    • http://files.pianolessonsontheweb.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438137/04e859ce.pdf
    • http://files.stcyprianssingers.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871894/2c1f0e3eecd550.pdf
    • http://files.emilyaustinphoto.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969306/famitutimine_rutadukawoguve_nikowepex_tidafitirik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4487/1063/files/vunom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9073/8328/files/jitovelokitivakobuwugoviw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2750/4024/files/nolodumon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1466/7934/files/gilevivozo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5470/1463/files/7428406088.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3355/8168/files/xubegodasu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4979/3174/files/jigesaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1144/8729/files/89418140522.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3486/1987/files/4684647017.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8155/6375/files/buzuwemegodatobaji.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5863/3627/files/vunifesawanaduzolakuminar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1154/4987/files/jiratejareta.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5091/7269/files/4260984183.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_off00006fd9.bin
c5a9e368e7457089995ce8367a08ed602d3c034a17862b58c1a0ee97a8c9ac99
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FD9 4912 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000080a5.bin
11c08be96fa4ac34e618b4f524b1fb27a853d623f0e787cbb4db8ae10bf12ce6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x80A5 10388 bytes