Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3f3ce2354663d41e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.6 KB Created: 2020-08-12 04:39:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 61ee79b20204959ca9cd999ecc20e39a SHA-1: c646528b98edbaccc2733139adc086fc0f86026c SHA-256: 3f3ce2354663d41e277e3b3f9cd8d98c201c38ea7d193a6f7693898a1c6f9893
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains multiple embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'adjective or adverb exercises pdf' and the malicious URL itself, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the link. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy to obscure the ultimate destination. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=adjective+or+adverb+exercises+pdf.

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=adjective+or+adverb+exercises+pdf
    • http://rekolev.americasbestchildcare.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482853/mibumanulid.pdf
    • http://files.bradleyfwb.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437503/2826017.pdf
    • http://files.hazbap.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482950/daxer.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3866/9976/files/11834003183.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3431/9776/files/valefe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2870/1603/files/domuxebowukudawa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3628/5860/files/56338133761.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0961/3725/files/59225591013.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2341/6987/files/55886807091.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3548/2517/files/sciatic_nerve_injury.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0451/0887/files/89194027804.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7086/6076/files/91336104176.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6158/2755/files/63722003506.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/8833338052.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9827/4978/files/93932706801.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/8224/0420/files/angela_carter_bluebeard.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7923/6774/files/rpg_maker_mv_crafting.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7564/1247/files/47043593107.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_off00004b6f.bin
f5f6086a2678e3c95fcac30bfe990b29de7b8930c7c3996339b832f9a020ba21
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4B6F 5448 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005e08.bin
b5a84171e3eb88e4489cc762213d4a455eedba7751ca52b9798424991ab7ac16
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E08 12504 bytes