Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 463ea6e6f81c03b1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.3 KB Created: 2020-08-17 12:31:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5c6fa960c2f4e4725225f580d2f4fe9a SHA-1: 7627345be962a78abe01494ecf45e31edefe3c73 SHA-256: 463ea6e6f81c03b1085285da061417c0b539b25c45035f83d6e78501c2d4a403
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is likely used to obscure the final destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, suggesting it's the primary lure. The presence of a large number of external links, many pointing to Shopify, indicates a potential SEO spam campaign designed to drive traffic to malicious sites.

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=lagu+dj+salah+apa+aku+metrolagu
    • http://files.sail-cg.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682134/d6b1b60909.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9647/3749/files/invitation_to_the_lifespan_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2514/5760/files/tutif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5564/3813/files/cds_exam_pattern_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8052/3678/files/sikizabojajezezisa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2881/4746/files/72241887483.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5868/3291/files/rebetisubekiwelaludaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7385/5903/files/73995463942.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5205/6227/files/kegikivusofivitifono.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8917/4432/files/fojusevoxuvadewuperafowo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6775/3116/files/11710204161.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_off0000f2a1.bin
ed5d641fadf6fd09e62beaca4274a3407a6b5266491c8e994109565592918744
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF2A1 5452 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001050f.bin
41f488471789ed4b8dba764ca4d34e84ed8806288bba568cb757781d9046a6c5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1050F 12748 bytes