Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ff41d68e778831e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.1 KB Created: 2020-08-29 17:31:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 14bf4d0a7cb08b0f4aa5693b634f828e SHA-1: 9e61155bcb709a04ad85e58f1a78220fd096e290 SHA-256: 2ff41d68e778831e3e058c14f4550843d427b3001cee7eeba4fa25483f932284
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text that appears to be a lure for 'Amber alert 2012 full movie free', combined with a malicious URL. This suggests a phishing attack aiming to redirect users to malicious content. The PDF also contains a link farm heuristic, indicating it's part of a larger SEO poisoning effort.

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/wix?keyword=amber+alert+2012+full+movie+free
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/9026/4478/files/town_lake_running_trail_map.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6794/6648/files/archaic_or_dialect_form_of_myself.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9560/3862/files/vakadugamaz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4745/0774/files/girl_paper_bag_puppet_template.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/0882/3193/files/wudixuj.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0fdb6d_b35cdc462a29424480bb7ecba0360e20.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d4f0c95c0cfc47c3ad749529c535000e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5c0101b12be4433f90a782b02d807459.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_47848471d24d4d1694b130c3af5ca509.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_664249c81da44ab2969ba9e06293e833.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2144100e9be34a09ba9a82ea531e3fca.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_936e6d706b1745e681c286eb4167454a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d1cf448b6cbc46a68b31134152d4f845.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5544/6176/files/10_barriers_to_effective_communication.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/6975/5812/files/anglers_choice_guide_service_presque_isle_wi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7901/6349/files/hobbs_and_shaw_streaming_vostfr.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/vijufetibumumupaxewaromuw.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_off000068d6.bin
e7f22f7ac05ee81dbf6e236b04325ca3e22238b969265bfc0f1b6deb605447f5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x68D6 5252 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007aa9.bin
98944b68a32897ee3b70f27b2bc8456e197fdf7a519282bab5ded04c17568367
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7AA9 10376 bytes