Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 394e61c07e59cb55…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.6 KB Created: 2020-07-30 09:48:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 8c76bc948b4924bae5b0603df6131094 SHA-1: d11ea8cdc4bd072129e30b8ef7bb59940e17bfc3 SHA-256: 394e61c07e59cb55cbf717a954de33947c1763b732be154087f664ec4a0c72c2
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on cdn.shopify.com. One critical heuristic firing indicates that the PDF links to a known malicious redirector infrastructure via ttraff.cc. The document body appears to be heavily obfuscated or corrupted, preventing analysis of its direct content. The primary attack pattern observed is the use of a link farm to obscure malicious redirection.

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.cc/pify?keyword=preschool+letter+worksheets+pdf
    • http://files.mutedwoo.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384432/divurekewo.pdf
    • http://files.pellegrinotheatre.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407051/bijeror.pdf
    • http://files.mcwichita.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969446/nodabero-kupuwegif-luwelizinogax-rizepikanekoli.pdf
    • http://files.polelifestyle.us/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437980/2094144.pdf
    • http://files.isleofnorthuist.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871705/2412437.pdf
    • http://files.isleofnorthuist.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9389/2008/files/vitosabajogunu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8286/6072/files/jebinekudeforujibuxulov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4996/5978/files/96094072483.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1967/2472/files/65037973675.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3151/8622/files/96031269652.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/tekutuni.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4088/9240/files/dineni.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7525/5972/files/kuxanawe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1837/0728/files/kupodilimifezuruxefe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4953/9989/files/88517415642.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7628/7648/files/49609561387.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/kuzizurogepibisomagin.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_off00006e25.bin
ce1d14cafff3fa50d4847f92389d5935ff451f6be8c85cbb91e141f8b3b86817
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E25 4824 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007eb2.bin
e326521b6e2b59023e7af1ac99e7cdc4e9278d78c9907e305ab693dcded8d853
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7EB2 10024 bytes