Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 441f060c4fb22615…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.7 KB Created: 2020-08-05 04:00:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 704d076e81f55b71f3c3a8bfea12d688 SHA-1: 3f40b4fda5cd5c642de6e6cd23c2c223264635b8 SHA-256: 441f060c4fb22615134e7dd12ff10cd3971c79ccdb12106c134df6d12e46a899
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, which is characteristic of a link farm. One prominent link, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=alabama+abortion+law+details+pdf', redirects to malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Alabama abortion law details pdf' and the authoring application 'wkhtmltopdf', suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious link farm. The primary attack pattern involves redirecting users to potentially harmful content through a deceptive document.

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=alabama+abortion+law+details+pdf
    • http://files.wroeh.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775917/368f5ce.pdf
    • http://files.vexsens.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775846/waforumuwanaxogudo.pdf
    • http://pomid.swtradingcompany.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453247/1208481.pdf
    • http://files.balloonsbyjessica.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681740/4575432.pdf
    • http://files.mrsclynedaviscoolclass.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069950/kafobamenoxagugisigu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4115/2421/files/sudojipe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2875/0241/files/99250218931.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/fiwowosilikaragufes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5284/3676/files/murimed.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7190/4673/files/tuxexoxiw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8806/8254/files/71868646510.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0545/1160/files/subject_verb_agreement_worksheets_grade_2.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9688/1814/files/makuwog.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0421/4942/files/86280923258.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9080/4885/files/pagokepoxenad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6528/6549/files/rudolisodozilagu.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_off00008464.bin
7c8872ecde6ed5167bb1541e0ee0c6aafec891bfd2c87d12cb6359745da00705
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8464 5408 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000096ba.bin
94bf2b84aabc5ad8329aabbec93ac4bcf96fc4b1e10d52d7b47b29c68f7d794e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x96BA 10256 bytes