Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 31d685a5efc6b221…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.9 KB Created: 2020-08-31 14:12:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 84fdfef2610f17ac062f1bc2f4c7d256 SHA-1: ca3cc23e7e595e606567f55ce4934233c8fc9775 SHA-256: 31d685a5efc6b221b4369e66f31e13e2dbc77a438e0cba2f52ed927ea2f37611
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF 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, likely for obfuscation or to host further payloads. The presence of a visual download button lure reinforces the social engineering aspect of this document. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be user interaction with the malicious link.

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=abhiyum+naanum+songs++masstamilan
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/47948794002.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9238/5700/files/71386844741.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2790/7239/files/japozibifuwi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0189/6347/files/jusejabe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3325/6345/files/jitubefiwaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1571/6516/files/40271284579.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5812/5207/files/97494553578.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5491/5993/files/titesaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5131/0488/files/5964184822.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2389/1618/files/lamadu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7186/4993/files/pabukamosutudiz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6870/0310/files/vezurazipune.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1157/9809/files/65335322890.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9494/0575/files/chac_mool_english.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9809/5272/files/pro_tools_8._0_download.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_off00005560.bin
22379af6ff1a311f00a4c636b8e888dbda23a73664802462b61c2c6623b1302a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5560 5236 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006713.bin
7c02f8d0ba9ea8922a9b6b671edea6faf867c6e099677e73a82184373259b601
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6713 10792 bytes