Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42b41e102f39ecf6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.3 KB Created: 2020-08-21 08:06:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 93a6a95548cbecbdcf3722953231003b SHA-1: d8c879215f194187d2d25f7b172ed7672872f0ff SHA-256: 42b41e102f39ecf6682d8437fcc573c9d3fb283e79228bf6bc63bc6436047102
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 'ttraff.com'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded links, many hosted on Shopify. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL. The primary attack pattern involves tricking the user into clicking the malicious link, likely leading to further compromise.

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=bokeh+background+video+free
    • http://kosuturo.thebankofguns.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871991/747358.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7679/4021/files/48019288383.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9612/1251/files/popular_npm_packages.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9450/6661/files/76621140275.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5856/9128/files/53102386936.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5689/7947/files/8342866141.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1300/5724/files/zateroberewinokuxoxemem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8011/3562/files/succeed_in_cae_10_practice_tests_key.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0190/5315/files/bestiario_2_pathfinder.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7960/5147/files/probability_and_statistics_interview_questions_and_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5063/0296/files/samegusonupixoweb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3069/9414/files/73184777959.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4610/9341/files/30529928110.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_off000048c6.bin
df546b075c617e22934fc02a52d9fce25f92107451cc9b5076615451ae1d2225
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x48C6 5388 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005b1c.bin
472584292c003b9b5700221d012f19ae7ac5a4799f9949861dc5af48fe7e8f5c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B1C 9812 bytes