Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 407645bd130332dc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.7 KB Created: 2020-08-28 02:45:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 6258a3d9cca295c160c40a9a2f711727 SHA-1: 70ebcfa29705f1fd97cfa218b4fb3d4d6937673f SHA-256: 407645bd130332dcdb8639059b0da7300bcfc37ad8b9fe6e05cd68453b6ca5f9
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. This link is presented in a context suggesting a lure related to 'laserjet printer color'. The file also contains a large number of embedded links, many hosted on Shopify, which is indicative of a link farm used for SEO poisoning or to obscure the final malicious destination. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, but the primary malicious intent appears to be redirecting the user to a harmful site.

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=laserjet+printer+color
    • http://files.olympicmountaincloggers.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164569/2977319.pdf
    • http://files.iyhfoundation.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969489/zasosuwupoger.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8105/6935/files/jikogufawitovogo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7547/7416/files/71385396829.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0449/3987/files/tratamiento_carcinoma_papilar_de_tiroides.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0673/7053/files/essentials_of_clinical_infectious_diseases_second_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7188/9817/files/29731983788.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0034/6270/files/beweli.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2054/0310/files/morofizesopaveleremimusid.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/85755015361.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2334/2495/files/68571962778.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2619/4336/files/5945948718.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5629/0206/files/the_last_straight_man_meme.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3625/2072/files/balancing_equations_practice_worksheet_class_7.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005cf2.bin
0326bd01f2a4250831a7ffe57a05f0ace3d749b62e3ff4fe240057c3a36e1eed
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5CF2 4732 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006d0a.bin
a46a5cf18b4185f884c4d9e8f2f7ae5c4a8adddafdce6cdc1bf78fe3aacaba9e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D0A 10304 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000903d.bin
b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x903D 4324 bytes