Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c816afe084156a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

65.0 KB Created: 2020-08-31 01:41:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 6e34aef67e5671e1dda7f10d86c318fe SHA-1: ec9342e2f7d957da4ef41c191b1b984e0d6587ab SHA-256: 3c816afe084156a58c334333fa9c52a687afdc8628534607e8d337d7b5dd10cc
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, identified as a PDF link farm. One of the primary links, 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=farallon+hedge+fund', is flagged as a known malicious redirector. This suggests the document's purpose is to direct users to malicious infrastructure, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of multiple shopify URLs, while flagged as benign, are part of the link farm strategy. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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/wix?keyword=farallon+hedge+fund
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9173/9295/files/xibolil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5412/1635/files/92361381102.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2017/2957/files/xonesukefigivovufafununus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8184/3353/files/kewabaj.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_43733c1196504b1db6c4a34a0a534cd8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fac845_1f5d8b40cc0c44a18fa56e2ddcf28648.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7da82f6427a9455cb57451b4981f93d3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8127dd_06867b5e192f412982fd5345f2a78e45.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5fd5c1_6213a62c1ebc4e04be4c56381cea16da.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b71340a52ce44950926d405c7b26cc05.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/eda9ba_b5e5a13669af43179445bbb96585cb3c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b444d4_af5bb23320404019a56d5f521b9ff2bb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/01bc73_e492da8a521545b29dc80f621f966978.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a76634_09f78643dc07460f96ec81059a0ce042.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00009132.bin
28a105a392c46cc2aa161cf114b3980d7452995e8239952bc39c305b6cac6163
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9132 4700 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a11d.bin
f015e73b39987abb6e7b1be41651bf531b876ef36a69141451e7a2d6e97e847e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA11D 16512 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000d400.bin
d1a84ba8f0e4a827a048d387db8dd5dae3538f1c7e72415b16af587a9947cdc7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD400 16060 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0000e898.bin
1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE898 4324 bytes