Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4d0fadb376cdbc7c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.0 KB Created: 2020-08-07 14:23:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 8fba91f65f6185d17ebe3cb9380780d3 SHA-1: faf026b7b12a158e4baeb8aa816eff8af68aceb2 SHA-256: 4d0fadb376cdbc7c68332cfa65f41c4b3962c4fd0467b3605a3e0bebcd061b93
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=angularjs+pdf+viewer+base64'. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF link farm heuristic, with numerous links to Shopify domains, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL, reinforcing its malicious intent. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=angularjs+pdf+viewer+base64
    • http://files.bullardbasketball.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739802/6567a68e1583565.pdf
    • http://xawofu.beachcitiesrockclub.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814476/e45eb7ad2c0827.pdf
    • http://files.cmjwny.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380482/dizitix.pdf
    • http://files.unconventionals.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775633/9541958.pdf
    • http://files.nicolaanne.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814136/gatepujow.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9272/9246/files/58701941454.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0182/1859/files/mubisuxavozafox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1700/2405/files/39558951874.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6382/0959/files/54739048963.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1470/9663/files/95770583850.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9892/2392/files/vavefa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3350/9534/files/gameboy_advance_sp_case.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2642/3701/files/kodefomipodapige.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8865/0142/files/32247090087.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/1890/0888/files/bsc_1st_year_math_book_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5391/6053/files/wordly_wise_book_6_lesson_15.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5766/7487/files/fudeguboxilimine.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/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2642/3701/files/kodefomipodapige

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000066a4.bin
e655a068ca4a0007fbfb504fee7d09ae1a4b6dc19fd2324af9970cee0058f8f3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66A4 5808 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007a9a.bin
e101db32d6fbf2b8b221ad764761292c51353a4ad7eb0366501eb206c2162f72
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A9A 16756 bytes