Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 30e67e27f00cbc45…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.0 KB Created: 2020-08-01 22:24:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5e5ed46dd0370553c5913da516487bba SHA-1: 4ce6723571d0e7c1d47101758754377f7bee9a16 SHA-256: 30e67e27f00cbc452ae578bfd7dfcfb53c86cc90a0c9a70bfad422f8d72ad4c9
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a reference to the same URL and a keyword that appears to be a lure. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute the malicious PDF.

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/pify?keyword=ravenloft+denizens+of+darkness+pdf
    • http://files.greaterorlandotrn.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383533/1074f37e.pdf
    • http://files.americansemi.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131855992/jaranaxoragajovux.pdf
    • http://files.hollybrookchurch.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398278/6736245.pdf
    • http://files.lkoc.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383497/bofepowoj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3645/8654/files/minecraft_world_machine.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9779/2411/files/6536024644.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0102/7493/files/da_form_2166_8.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7364/2406/files/71867858646.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/84113106953.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2127/9132/files/international_economics_pugel_16th_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9046/9283/files/72064507839.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0593/4759/files/jordyn_jones_banji.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7441/2949/files/ripazinaleluki.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2862/6080/files/3007086817.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0677/8777/files/87358629906.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7026/7300/files/rugesivakereja.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8393/2582/files/luzonolesuvowadubu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4504/4892/files/16344040276.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3019/7925/files/book_of_vile_darkness.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_off00010b1c.bin
f25d9720b69a67036fd2b33843a63008db788125a4c6c2b8d91c0dd96cf088f6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B1C 5216 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011d07.bin
ce7e0e843ae1695f5d605db0f4ae2cb54fd58b58208f56f67471240ed21658c2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11D07 16128 bytes