Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ef5f13d99c6bbe2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.3 KB Created: 2020-09-01 14:00:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4baab89bd1c647da734ea56aa9da0dfc SHA-1: 774b34e018c280955d656c97863c92ef06229502 SHA-256: 2ef5f13d99c6bbe263d740e9912f2e13ec0392ebf11ba191edfffa40f6d92f45
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded links, one of which points to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to mail merging and the malicious URL. The presence of a link farm with numerous PDFs hosted on Shopify suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute content widely, with the primary redirector being 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.com/wix?keyword=mail+merge+envelopes+from+excel+spreadsheet
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6591/8118/files/sijegoxugelakot.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9018/2297/files/wojubisovezazozaditigavew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0466/5658/5893/files/3762503695.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4557/6088/files/87015142912.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4853/3144/files/58939843880.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8846/1478/files/capacitor_bank_working_principle.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1117/7629/files/xivetujovulasasubunatene.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/6618/7933/files/decorative_plastic_sheet_material.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6067/4198/files/38224774053.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6992/3740/files/61347944024.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/865d50_8465c682a5cb4b45b7940e64326c6f55.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/895bef_602574769fc2455788acef51c70e1d8e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e0e62151f5aa4009897c31c951668580.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ee6770_96f2aead6b4c46e2b1882d1e44a9d438.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ae15ca_98e7c5941fce4c078046f7c40fafad51.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_off00005ea9.bin
ef8309854cc27f9a289747e1347b28edd84c0697efcd10e664ffe5e95091ece3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5EA9 5700 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000071ff.bin
8e0d22137d74b11127a593b455cdfc24224523432c8350d6c6afe2291cadee89
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71FF 10008 bytes