Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 58845b0d05a6967a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.6 KB Created: 2020-08-10 13:20:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 70b7c2ee5057555f209e2f67a1f8d486 SHA-1: f25fdae7957f1bc5f3e6b4411eff975d183a1243 SHA-256: 58845b0d05a6967aa583835b907690a798f6df08aede0a7da9562685fcbac4c3
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external sites. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is presented in the document body as an 'English unlimited placement test pdf'. This suggests a social engineering lure to trick users into clicking the link. The file also contains numerous other links to Shopify-hosted PDFs, likely part of a link farm to improve search engine ranking for malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be the malicious redirector.

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=english+unlimited+placement+test+pdf
    • http://files.ucointernational.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453969/satikivowabu-vajukopuzig-gubarodixekuba-jurowob.pdf
    • http://files.dassiedahan-author.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131436971/wixodasa.pdf
    • http://files.loveglitter.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398362/4106793.pdf
    • http://files.canyoncitygrill.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407459/719052.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2264/5408/files/cash_flow_forecasting_in_software_project_management.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0844/2020/files/verypdf_to_word_ocr_converter_serial_key.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4227/4471/files/inkscape_manual_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4746/1788/files/74174794581.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9700/5981/files/ap_grama_sachivalayam_syllabus_2020_in_telugu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6772/8279/files/2383872361.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2973/2248/files/fubetirilota.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/6565103434.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4346/2037/files/bojupemoxoselu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6885/9303/files/54567983993.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5150/7094/files/6114024340.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2585/8711/files/duwipuzinosin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8383/3249/files/54555945884.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3573/7755/files/d_alembert_principle.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_off00005bb4.bin
7d39ca14f2eda49f8fb09afaf7dc4538af2999e6a23974655954e48603428de6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5BB4 5432 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006e06.bin
fb35211248b1d9c43a0c45d10c63e22534aaf970be506ecc3a1887c92ba5e69e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E06 10412 bytes