Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2b23e0d380acb01d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.6 KB Created: 2020-07-26 22:38:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 724504092204faf5f6729b550dae935c SHA-1: bcb07487c23ceeeeb76152599bc2c1954bb4a47e SHA-256: 2b23e0d380acb01db119c45cff7bccc803c0740fad46db11070892565497f309
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF link farm heuristic, with numerous links pointing to Shopify domains, suggesting an attempt to distribute malicious content or engage in SEO manipulation for malicious purposes. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains keywords related to urgency, reinforcing the lure. The primary attack vector appears to be directing users to malicious infrastructure via embedded links.

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=deep+fitted+bed+sheets+uk
    • http://files.beautiful-britain.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606118/7f65a6a944.pdf
    • http://files.sgpropertycity.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130968960/a5d5d9210f3cec.pdf
    • http://files.lonsdale-estate.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437770/7476893.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0700/7127/files/wowamisiwuw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5724/9430/files/lonab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3526/3130/files/82639743305.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2353/2195/files/pajixu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3314/1149/files/danuwiguderodojobup.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9654/7230/files/tatugemovapod.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6055/9013/files/fesalanovataz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8701/8649/files/zogajabubezadexulo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3617/2710/files/kizifigawukanekizizeku.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3191/0821/files/31071156316.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4101/4438/files/gaxop.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/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005b21.bin
c7e8edb8bf6593036f59acd98ec31dc0570d9b7a4caa8ba93de29362e6dd646a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B21 4660 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006b0a.bin
013b16b20a05e10e2ce5e668cbaa40585598cbba998bf798f976a3e661356847
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B0A 10064 bytes