Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 335885141eaea1bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.7 KB Created: 2020-09-05 23:17:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 87658b73aa96921fbd22b4e6562af79d SHA-1: 23dbe4943b10ded36e7b1ef86a1d0a07507ecff0 SHA-256: 335885141eaea1bbd14ab37f97328c68add0beb7edcbac9ad6309759206fafdd
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on cdn.shopify.com. One of the primary links, however, directs to a known malicious redirector at ttraff.link. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the text "Fractions worksheets pdf with answers" and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The PDF structure and the presence of numerous external links are indicative of a link farm or redirection attack.

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.link/pify?keyword=fractions+worksheets+pdf+with+answers
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0506/6913/files/7854951487.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8118/8003/files/world_web_dictionary_free_for_laptop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4424/7451/files/manefiwenas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4457/7185/files/adobe_air_apk_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6529/4504/files/eyeliner_stencil_template_boots.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0468/9785/6674/files/begin_verb_3_form.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a43ec6_4a6ba43aa6a54f5890dab98acea2faf8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a44510_f5b0cb8c85c745bc9b9111df3428be29.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2f7815_d20e8f3a92ed4464b1bb35ee1e1d176c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5ed537_3b78a288c39745308c38ca8afecbc945.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c1c462_74296e9a367840298ad0e8744e5f6ada.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3131/4077/files/ntpc_bhopal_admit_card_2019.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7016/0032/files/30_day_eviction_notice_template_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2864/9896/files/age_of_empire_3_cheats.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9772/5864/files/29899471833.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006221.bin
ee7efa56b19d9053d4330317843b160ddac258a4556fd2e27a081525e27c8c38
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6221 5112 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007387.bin
daf8bb44a8d2047b283007ced1a2ce0b96761aefa021743fcc677ea653f1b372
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7387 10476 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009764.bin
1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9764 4324 bytes