Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 414562ed15427369…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.0 KB Created: 2020-08-05 04:47:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 598b24afa903712aac336cebb52b5536 SHA-1: e1e60b7a22d5eff69aca889ea4d1625c3cf0c599 SHA-256: 414562ed15427369629da73142d4900664225c96515a8e8603d6b1abf9e454e6
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=reasoning+backwards+gregg+young+pdf+download'. This URL is embedded within the document body, suggesting a social engineering lure to trick the user into clicking it. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to Shopify domains, likely for obfuscation or to appear legitimate. 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.com/pify?keyword=reasoning+backwards+gregg+young+pdf+download
    • http://files.dycaaup.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606173/jekela.pdf
    • http://files.metamorphasis.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398347/a5c263.pdf
    • http://files.allamericandoorofindiana.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814308/77e867ff.pdf
    • http://files.thatartgal.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163590/kafupakizas.pdf
    • http://files.thechildrenspiazza.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406885/seronekoxa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8802/7555/files/rx75_john_deere_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4329/9232/files/lerakixiwejotodemisijo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1059/6765/files/minecraft_world_presets.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2756/1634/files/98023949513.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5045/8520/files/73277054215.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4079/8885/files/limitations_of_demographic_transition_theory.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0726/2370/files/mad_mad_house.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5235/2159/files/zolaguwexasafamozuxazatow.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9378/6791/files/jefuxotimobunalonixabip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2093/3528/files/synthes_humeral_nail.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1263/6315/files/mupejanisobike.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_off00007345.bin
50d73b10f4cf46843b19d31a957a24c1a96e6214ee2028c2878f896c00a2cedb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7345 5728 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000086fc.bin
43757e34ddc45a4c5a57d877b38c450fd5ea5a120645aed198c652ef3848d541
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x86FC 10588 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ab6d.bin
cc4dcf9b3f20d6ee28823ee0c936756282ca457d240c648fb056104074dd32c9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAB6D 16836 bytes