Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 49f2f0c9b0282ea7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.7 KB Created: 2020-08-25 23:07:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7d1be5fe231c3474769a151bb22cba0d SHA-1: 660088b03edd7abc3516980f1c6f349323c924d1 SHA-256: 49f2f0c9b0282ea74e3cbf94b2c2418c0e9fe43e21f0ef7873663d5b9f73d94f
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.cc, disguised as a helpful guide. This redirector likely leads to a malicious payload or phishing site. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL and appears to be a lure. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt to increase visibility.

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=how+to+save+pages+from+a+pdf
    • http://files.writing4apurpose.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775199/wepemedijopimizerogi.pdf
    • http://vunume.teacheremmyanne.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814788/xaburemetu.pdf
    • http://files.mrycpetcare.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969403/2102638.pdf
    • http://pulokir.kristindraucker.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776394/2507439.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3019/9966/files/vosojubi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6160/8599/files/ecommerce_sitemap_template.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7312/7079/files/sapexulefogizanafitoz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2696/3865/files/problem_solving_teaching_strategy.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5212/1762/files/archicad_18_trial.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9833/9496/files/kiwamudozipojoda.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2567/7982/files/vujogaraxigej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7257/7946/files/clicker_heroes_unlimited_rubies.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3835/1255/files/sitemibamo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2707/0117/files/arithmetic_and_geometric_formulas.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_off00006167.bin
fd0f45c7263a8972658c947703a5c26f99265b0791c57e9384f99f3438c9817e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6167 5444 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000073f0.bin
70a0519304af9a8b636b7ab211df1636bf369777962345d5ec571d84412ba5bd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73F0 9964 bytes