Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 364d6e72a4a33ec8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.7 KB Created: 2020-08-26 12:43:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 68cb09a30300b71461c63db6b5c5c529 SHA-1: b6b5213c077fcc72fe0b38121bb5b1f4fce89658 SHA-256: 364d6e72a4a33ec82c069bb2b9c8b6c207a02f86f3b8d24a9fae908642f9d968
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 redirector service. The primary malicious URL, https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=how+to+evolve+traded+pokemon+on+emul, is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to this URL and other benign-looking PDF files hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to drive traffic to the malicious site.

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=how+to+evolve+traded+pokemon+on+emul
    • http://files.oceanstatebirdclub.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131455463/xurokuvibatix.pdf
    • http://files.beasleycounselingservices.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438190/tutozotenerunas.pdf
    • http://zusam.wheelchairaccessdesign.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710603/5088958.pdf
    • http://files.dubelt.org.pl/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378821/gibuderij-madifofuz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8482/4222/files/how_to_make_balloon_animals.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9208/0795/files/73820362136.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2385/9873/files/wavenuzumeruxago.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5346/6271/files/20433715904.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/6762/9730/files/67892346982.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5506/2948/files/95506652660.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/71135401618.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1958/3133/files/nopirejuwufivebagomexetu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8443/7922/files/vsepr_theory_class_11.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_off00005bc9.bin
2d1718f30dab85be102cd023e8f2d1492233f59204bb5fbb600965f8a8e8e467
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5BC9 5104 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006d1e.bin
ac8da3cc5ff0d1f4ac505640a2a8331989736ef921803ab6b06900dfc2d63e78
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D1E 10316 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000090a7.bin
2e2dbd8d40f44e1da00b7f18e1398173a4086b41d4ddf32f7cc12e009e373e5f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x90A7 16140 bytes