Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3b0760e74bef1c41…

MALICIOUS

PDF

113.7 KB Created: 2020-08-22 05:30:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 09a284c0a4fefad07b4a233814845c19 SHA-1: 00729c17bda188b64e2fbcae91996e4e54d1a6da SHA-256: 3b0760e74bef1c4121e109d2f0520f22560f864d89a0a8cc519c9deb50718f0b
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF link farm heuristic, with numerous external links, many hosted on 'cdn.shopify.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the target URL and mentions 'snowblower parts manual', suggesting a lure. The primary attack pattern involves redirecting users through malicious infrastructure to potentially malicious content.

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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=ariens+1028+snowblower+parts+manual
    • http://files.dakotasdogs.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969143/mufedujajot_dijodexu_momuwogemuj.pdf
    • http://jixiwa.doreenfarewell.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453274/9086289.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9775/9643/files/86331379622.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6550/5952/files/26459090909.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3399/2085/files/herbalife_ackman.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2598/9785/files/lisalagapem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/67257536452.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6011/8175/files/90330065150.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3103/6053/files/banikexiposenolasarewik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7259/3832/files/weblogic_admin_interview_questions_and_answers_for_experienced.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3754/8959/files/abrsm_piano_grade_1_pieces.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0637/7633/files/tegikotimorubosixokod.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1778/8830/files/3d_bovine_anatomy_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6255/0940/files/wiwazo.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_off00017c19.bin
b90df4542b35b64312f066a8029cbf2a7e12d4539629df9a65eb52780b4733e4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17C19 5708 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00018f78.bin
6e1c35285e91de0d450ece957c13fe3e97c5b9ef14caf2c5eb0dbef021b3c76f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18F78 12780 bytes