Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3cc92293ffc02e53…

MALICIOUS

PDF

59.1 KB Created: 2020-08-18 17:25:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 641bce3e0e136aedb180a427ea641467 SHA-1: 17d9a17ea43400462a7b59d717ff116f11928d0f SHA-256: 3cc92293ffc02e53e5aa5655254d63f6b103fe0951367de96c3b031b38a5a911
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded URLs, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The primary malicious URL identified is 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=yam+agrarian+reform+farmers+cooperative'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to this URL, suggesting it is the intended destination for users clicking on the embedded links. The presence of numerous links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggests an attempt to disguise the malicious redirector within a seemingly legitimate context.

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=yam+agrarian+reform+farmers+cooperative
    • http://files.wvmooseassociation.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606174/bcfcf.pdf
    • http://lopobow.ciecanswers.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607163/rawox.pdf
    • http://files.oliverfeist.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453574/4136902.pdf
    • http://givexexa.kodiakislandc.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873951/bd56e1208aa.pdf
    • http://wokerimab.montessoriconcepts.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740214/wuzovaruza.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9314/8313/files/35545080437.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2261/3669/files/rozesafudeminoxek.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9041/0658/files/lesijulukosuwati.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3497/6157/files/kafosexuvopijosubosenul.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0391/7974/files/73944903.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3550/0439/files/embedded_linux_booting_process.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/6656/2462/files/lutizufabimilegetagekerix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1449/6161/files/josefulebixek.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7758/0453/files/vector_class_c.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5942/0063/files/jisix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5167/0943/files/32029075472.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_off0000a0de.bin
3bb92ad520ecc674877a1eee3eeb04e33f55774f4948c747fce3b041eee56678
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA0DE 5324 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000b2ef.bin
e30ed705261be4d63eb8e7307eb7f01345f0e6a9577a70c3886aaeee64d97141
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2EF 13868 bytes