Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26cf1ae286873daa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.0 KB Created: 2020-09-02 01:10:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 584921f64538b0d4699e98f280646467 SHA-1: f0f55300785ebdcefc22821a11c7f121b60972fb SHA-256: 26cf1ae286873daaa49a2ca74fdb93be00f329d2d0aa08d9c2834e3b50372fb4
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a high number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on cdn.shopify.com. One of these links, https://ttraff.club/wix?keyword=arise+platform+jobs, is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same lure text and URLs, indicating an attempt to drive traffic to malicious sites under the guise of job opportunities.

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.club/wix?keyword=arise+platform+jobs
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0811/4340/files/xibeg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8677/4436/files/58390455382.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0460/1970/7047/files/free_bitlocker_for_windows_10_home.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6971/0242/files/kamina_nuances_amazon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9671/7992/files/early_childhood_education_in_canada.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0469/0522/9474/files/65706145512.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5023/6054/files/79641019396.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1b4078be1ad94920a9a9c9a07c1541c3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/32acb1_91fd7bd2d1b64e22818ae2454e10fd6c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5534b1fd798b4bd2ab91d8ec39330eb0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_11a53feb3f1d4891977363a9b9ba0a44.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c8bb3b6efe8d4c31b864064d81324398.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b41a9a_cc17ebd65ea94167a8351be2a1f0af11.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e5412a_a72c4efd01044aba88a88c36d11e324a.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000601b.bin
8351893f42797e83acd7cae136efde75abfe1c9095c8252a3a9ac9bf04fdedd9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x601B 4936 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000070cd.bin
b7c22c7c1b3398dcadce328404d24fd37016cf55ed7b85d42c15a0e08976690a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70CD 6620 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000825a.bin
847fe4262a711d2b0b11f9ab0846d7033dfff97ab449afb2ceb4397591ea9d60
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x825A 10120 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0000a4f3.bin
b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA4F3 4324 bytes