Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43b44f38450fbe20…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.4 KB Created: 2020-08-31 16:17:32 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7d641244a47c8ac11221f17ac2c255e4 SHA-1: d22ebff39356b386f06272ffea46eee85978766d SHA-256: 43b44f38450fbe20e046fce155d3b905dac9c2ed8550452454c4c4c499022f40
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. One critical heuristic identified a PDF link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is used to obscure the final destination. The document body, though heavily corrupted, contains the phrase 'Leaf structure lab answer key' and the malicious URL, indicating a social engineering lure. The primary intent appears to be redirecting the user to malicious infrastructure via the ttraff.cc URL.

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.cc/pify?keyword=leaf+structure+lab+answer+key
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1060/4705/files/vehicle_dynamics_gillespie_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0127/3758/files/gutaredesebemegozeti.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8923/1014/files/bojagoridetifoliwezufetis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9981/4040/files/chiweenie_breed_information.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5965/8398/files/43824247260.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8392/3609/files/free_death_anniversary_invitation_templates.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6585/1542/files/godupoxikumiwiputotosaxu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8381/7375/files/love_yourself_answer_album_inside.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4117a9_357ba0cf7e3b4dbc817379565b3cec98.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0f5b72_6f427cfbc08b40489d3b0ff62db76984.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_24f7d0fef4b5417e9c7205c9f62d74ad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2409/7191/files/giresojavisep.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2263/9527/files/lazizelisaxuzakugifav.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5978/1538/files/96593924853.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3826/7809/files/bibezadezot.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5499/6375/files/cg_dj_remix_gana_new_2018.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_off00008d89.bin
acb79d29a50245222d857cb21f2543c2d8d0b7545716de224e33649d8b782b54
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8D89 4936 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009e7b.bin
d7383fdf262c24487bb6190278b79f69ece521514dcd85ce106b98d4bb9de072
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9E7B 10648 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000c2b1.bin
0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2B1 4324 bytes