Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2d93a4df027bb462…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.3 KB Created: 2020-08-19 03:27:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4bc893970da3d0245952da2cd23839d0 SHA-1: ab96085b2ca1f2b44c7048de6ddb66d768cc5fdf SHA-256: 2d93a4df027bb4621caca8463fc9a5672e5a033731e3eae4cc6a281d39118807
120 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 `https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=california+general+election+official+voter+information+guide`. This URL is designed to lure users with a seemingly legitimate topic. The document also contains a PDF link farm heuristic, indicating a large number of external links, many hosted on `cdn.shopify.com`. The primary malicious URL is the most critical IOC.

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=california+general+election+official+voter+information+guide
    • http://giwoxameb.petejgraham.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384013/1431500.pdf
    • http://sexenolag.aperturedelta.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606490/gokuvegikulewelolage.pdf
    • http://files.new2christ.com.au/uploads/1/3/0/8/130815026/rogid_tefudonir_dezuxiva.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8309/5459/files/82086999676.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1386/4602/files/dinosaur_adventure_3d.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3393/6547/files/vefebexenubu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5468/6617/files/93014279811.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5013/9801/files/bipefunisulexoditafuno.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5317/7237/files/zusedizajiwabarigos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3961/3347/files/nunizigafananonodosalevo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3764/6245/files/67726347991.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0090/3318/files/15452749882.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9019/0248/files/12827915543.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_off00007ad8.bin
641b50e006558ea0d0f3bb3c4f3c500f15066b4157644266f4a709e81d3e536f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7AD8 5128 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008c3b.bin
a24ca9663cdd7731c4e337897fd2ddcd635ed678d15e3295bd51870c65df09e2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8C3B 10420 bytes