Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 28e8c858f108d5ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.8 KB Created: 2020-08-19 04:18:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7786e143e48b5b13e935a7c47a437104 SHA-1: 2901abbc413827fb45b991159ce3bb8e02bfe1e1 SHA-256: 28e8c858f108d5ea055be53e5653593a6b9f02783995672903302873962728c3
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF link farm behavior, embedding numerous external links, many hosted on Shopify. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains the target URL and suggests an urgency lure, likely to trick users into clicking the malicious link. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack pattern involves redirecting users to malicious infrastructure.

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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/pify?keyword=asco+clinical+practice+guidelines+febrile+neutropenia
    • http://files.uniqueandbeautifulshop.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382274/baxosamux.pdf
    • http://files.lovinlifedeepcreek.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070938/1752034.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9005/1221/files/wibesafigaxi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7555/9829/files/64939092845.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9306/5877/files/lufesixaxofitepozepatemud.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6512/1695/files/basic_electrical_electronics_and_instrumentation_engineering_notes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5657/8212/files/46686595370.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/7502/1474/files/mateneriwetamatuwamobug.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3767/0041/files/toturodezuwaderupaxet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8507/8423/files/86209525138.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6274/7548/files/43887673947.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_off0000734a.bin
c97036d5b27ccd478c41b50220c5c67a537c3bc75ce3ab02683b0653c55ad539		 pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x734A 5452 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000085d9.bin
73058986a4f48a309c016a7f5fc24231bf3db88de44ae476199da1fe98f8c95c		 pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x85D9 10728 bytes

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