Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 367e9eb9ff7a74b1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

33.9 KB Created: 2020-08-20 10:33:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 50154a860b3745696cfa2a89ba11a98d SHA-1: 36511642565ab1852991fee44257f1095032e462 SHA-256: 367e9eb9ff7a74b13abec17cc2c45bc1da074c4e88f7a95734c143589b85ae8c
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and appears to be a lure for theme music. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to Shopify domains, likely to obscure the malicious redirector. The primary malicious IOC is the ttraff.com URL, which is likely used to host or redirect to further malicious content.

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=alaipayuthey+bgm+theme+music
    • http://files.freerangeworship.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453855/e5e71.pdf
    • http://files.thebenchleyweinbergerlife.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130815017/zemosenomelelig-guzezemop-jenewadutilola-nigulivizu.pdf
    • http://gatiwow.rytiskonst.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406202/lutivupakudap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3971/1655/files/kickboxing_training_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8371/0117/files/noderogisapogerowajotar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9463/8749/files/rikuzoxiwafanini.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0528/6296/files/21671298655.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8538/9206/files/28889911697.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0510/8636/files/52679965710.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/5568/5288/files/woxevaxifepapijemibitog.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5396/4712/files/going_to_college_worksheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0621/4819/files/82157455760.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6068/1109/files/gixojolujiroxusiguzasuwe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8814/2743/files/ink_master_torrent.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0744/1053/files/91123207770.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_off00004654.bin
1097ba8450e6025ff562f520c11c8da3fa45a61796d5762f55796685e8bdc7be
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4654 5484 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000058db.bin
487807bf0873ef16f4e2f0c4d9da9acdea9db5e7bc86c00cc82ea5f18b04211a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x58DB 9916 bytes