Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d216e01c6e246fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.1 KB Created: 2020-07-25 01:42:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0a05bdbea5f3fbd56ad3a3fc6733ef9a SHA-1: 4d77844d9673d19b2557487afa599bf3621fa59c SHA-256: 3d216e01c6e246fa80f46afb44840e80704f12c8a795ba6b3ea276740427161f
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a high number of external links, many of which point to Shopify domains, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation or traffic redirection. One critical heuristic indicates a malicious redirector link to 'ttraff.cc', which is likely the primary malicious payload delivery mechanism. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to a 'certificate of experience form', implying a social engineering lure to encourage clicks on the embedded malicious links.

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=rme+certificate+of+experience+form
    • http://files.rameshgoel-krishna.net/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606467/c7dc7e01.pdf
    • http://files.upnorthrd.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163872/8077900.pdf
    • http://files.lyons-muirchurch.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682833/5501496.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7230/5817/files/kamasonameseseduweru.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0406/6983/files/razifirenupotagogavaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1960/6936/files/xizidatubonejokirogexil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0521/3847/files/kiriselatetu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7060/3932/files/tofotikuxokine.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3631/9645/files/tufibaliwu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0922/0501/files/50956172147.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9369/5395/files/63338959586.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4138/0759/files/botowopobifemitareserip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/91025233068.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5750/4668/files/tapabetugopifelexedu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9522/8565/files/wedusazubomelituk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1868/8424/files/51807097980.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7529/7689/files/tolonozolapaxesot.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_off0000fe0c.bin
1ab1c18fac12a2c93a7985453b60b22af6ef96ab84261f6e3ae1fb8b67c8b384
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE0C 4812 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010e47.bin
405947d07cb617ad8a230ce32787c00569520815ea056ed9ad95ec4a50b3bc71
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E47 10700 bytes