Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4219b7eee48ea66d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.9 KB Created: 2020-08-19 12:40:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3ba34335df62b3565350f944988f5e5b SHA-1: c7b09e7f526c316f11661489ec70d291ad60c6b7 SHA-256: 4219b7eee48ea66d27fe94622b37fec5b702296449e5bd235dbdbf2f7d3bb1a3
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a mass of external links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.com'. This suggests the document is designed to exploit SEO techniques to distribute malicious content, likely leading to further compromise. The presence of numerous PDF links, including one to 'ttraff.com', indicates a link farm strategy to obscure the final malicious destination.

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=lonely+planet+japan+pdf
    • http://files.gabcmemphis.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482886/vakajusu-nerujo.pdf
    • http://files.ronsgameroom.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452904/2142185.pdf
    • http://files.christineprietoarted.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398252/ganutanuvivo.pdf
    • http://files.primamusiceducators.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739443/04c7ec12c0c40d.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/8895/6830/files/adobe_printer_download_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0648/3876/files/biography_of_charles_dickens.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1218/5499/files/gabasimadumumezopagevaro.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9013/1609/files/naval_architecture_and_marine_engineering_books_pdf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0431/9128/files/zutuzujitawajizifoka.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5266/8830/files/42250000115.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7652/5988/files/wafigepizakolin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9171/3447/files/borevabebizu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2564/5224/files/51899403527.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0183/8757/files/57340473487.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3295/2477/files/14297402936.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_off00006b84.bin
92c78dd3781df57cf7470644c701470b2077b6f247acf8fad32d3843d56b4809
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B84 4880 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007c39.bin
d18ee9766243406b0b216295287aec9ff1264866afd3a4a6a1df7195e6d4d40f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C39 7148 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00008f9b.bin
2989d7c9f5982ee4e8906d9a4e3c756676e6d0a4d7ebdcc93552be95d98c3ccd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8F9B 10260 bytes