Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 277a2158a5dd692d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.2 KB Created: 2020-08-09 21:06:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 41a76d5eb8f4f8846105711bf5708085 SHA-1: d4ed7dd01a02e9f4302284358aba3f8dd58aac4b SHA-256: 277a2158a5dd692dd2e05980122b1f343ace9fe19baf1b5f210600849a33dfeb
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with many links pointing to Shopify domains and a primary malicious redirector at 'ttraff.cc'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'job interview questions and answers pdf file', suggesting a lure. The heuristic 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' confirms the presence of links to known malicious infrastructure, and 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' indicates a large number of outbound links designed to manipulate search results or distribute content. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL.

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=job+interview+questions+and+answers+pdf+file
    • http://pelufexi.curiousmable.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398455/7f39fb9b2cd196.pdf
    • http://nuvaroka.floridafinehomesandestates.net/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969060/gebozuxe.pdf
    • http://pufokape.matthewbaker.me/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452903/merurazafoguje-juvikoj-kevuxutiwonivu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0931/8813/files/nakur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2158/3014/files/20807120311.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7731/2405/files/veverikowun.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1804/4070/files/25976403308.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3049/4878/files/microsoft_document_immaging.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0071/6694/files/medesufaruverukamobawebu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9054/1728/files/91002251643.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3903/8359/files/anatomia_de_la_carotida.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5197/3794/files/86642354406.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0621/4819/files/jufupovegufojijivoxupo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6590/1210/files/98524927069.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8158/7095/files/50679463369.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7417/5644/files/business_law_exam_1.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7389/6615/files/comma_splice_quiz.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_off00007836.bin
fa621f1e2466c023f39b7d720d60f7b9e2399fd0f423d1b09b45e9c38f00578c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7836 5440 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008ad1.bin
8bd68ae44ec3de9a2226189e63f739042e4776296721f1ba451c8eebf148a3b9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8AD1 10628 bytes