Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 34be385eaba95646…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.0 KB Created: 2020-08-14 02:43:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 76f7b825d8d1a4a642de2ba93111085e SHA-1: b5dd18bb2dfe4fe8e1145fe153bfb9d77ad7de5a SHA-256: 34be385eaba95646da6fefae3dc53d6eaa853ba30a91b3b68917f0947c469530
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on Shopify, but one critical link redirects to a known malicious domain (ttraff.com). This indicates a social engineering attempt to trick users into visiting a malicious site under the guise of downloading PDF exercises. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports this lure.

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/wb?keyword=prepositions%20of%20time%20in%20on%20at%20exercises%20with%20answers%20pdf
    • http://tobozu.warrensmithdrums.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814930/5618573.pdf
    • http://files.skinandbodyworks.net/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969403/332da.pdf
    • http://lepapuxu.rowenatuziak.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070161/dulizojupinenenuf.pdf
    • http://files.etchingyourmemories.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813079/jubelarinosetotin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6467/8807/files/munomigijiviwepeton.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4671/5040/files/hostel_movie_trailer.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0737/6546/files/x_cube_2_mini.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/9639/5166/files/pdf_to_amazon_kindle_format_converter_online.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2702/9400/files/24735473908.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8267/0485/files/wugemoki.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9411/4465/files/83014739499.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7245/3797/files/womenamedewofafapevewo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3696/5026/files/lima_zip_code.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8204/6869/files/86585831977.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_off00004c94.bin
7fb09b589832b151fcab864d9b3d3804fcf4574a47ef91ed697c328358035072
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4C94 5312 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005e7b.bin
75ba3e45c83d65e300b8caf25effc9367fca5436001eeb415726dbd4e1d11967
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E7B 9924 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00008084.bin
ad623bc7c681097dfa1224999cf6cc6072d3ca9a137655dc1129b0261f0b357c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8084 4324 bytes