Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4a8c747b3e35deac…

MALICIOUS

PDF

89.7 KB Created: 2020-08-05 16:47:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7a43ee5f292bd1c897fbf461cd8d0744 SHA-1: a53b2e518b51b97eaee351591eecb9d990dadf73 SHA-256: 4a8c747b3e35deac2abeb6c788750b118673f03f6d7068eaa1abffb4497a656a
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic indicating it's a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, suggesting the primary intent is to trick the user into visiting this malicious site. The PDF also contains a large number of external links, many hosted on Shopify, which is flagged as a link farm. This suggests a campaign 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=barefoot+in+the+park+full+script+pdf+free
    • http://files.localzak.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437454/medepigilipi.pdf
    • http://files.lahongsnap.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814644/sodapefufexifowig.pdf
    • http://files.crossfitchalmette.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776861/32825.pdf
    • http://files.kymchessall.ca/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636957/9537833.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6369/7817/files/dagekosividadikofab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1036/6362/files/menunoritupozokixa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2318/7616/files/sozipuzuvusonetogexaxeb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7205/9547/files/74941621953.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9297/4499/files/sublime_albums_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7628/7648/files/45627839165.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3058/5250/files/76049982193.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9105/1161/files/woboxadezadiponi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4951/6199/files/zafiwuzebupumixugomifetan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3566/4284/files/quality_assurance_definition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3434/3574/files/fortalecer_autoestima_en_adolescentes_pdf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6151/8231/files/zavexonilitigivadutopo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4394/5622/files/rokusuxawazisabekaritov.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_off00011da7.bin
dd2e953b2669136e2ee32784a2ce7c1531f76eefb79785863d3cb3bfbc5acecf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11DA7 5356 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012fd9.bin
fe4e9ecf0c9ccb1534ba393f36fe4276db18ef783544bf2acc8746796d782427
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12FD9 12688 bytes