Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 788cd285f4e564e1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.9 KB Created: 2020-08-18 22:32:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7f59d97e03a082ac993d4103fc51bb51 SHA-1: 7673882e1afd1fd58c15083ca32bb978462e59c6 SHA-256: 788cd285f4e564e1be090c555cfc9c6961eeeffe77c782f369c079e047326da5
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, with one heuristic identifying it as a PDF link farm. The primary malicious URL, https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=british+words+vs+american+words+pdf, is flagged as a redirector. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated and contains many of the linked URLs, suggesting a content-scraping or SEO manipulation tactic. The presence of numerous benign-looking Shopify links alongside the malicious redirector suggests an attempt to blend in or leverage legitimate platforms for hosting or distribution.

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=british+words+vs+american+words+pdf
    • http://files.tangosverige.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857717/2fd9243bb3780.pdf
    • http://files.endoftenancyservice.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398097/namakiramije.pdf
    • http://files.i3study.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775607/xusumawexilo.pdf
    • http://files.millennial-media.net/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740275/5505793.pdf
    • http://batexozap.moeglitzxglam.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383483/7894892.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0441/8455/files/t25_total_body_circuit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9775/9643/files/179082928.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5778/9593/files/arma_2_launcher.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7731/1391/files/raramuzinixodesu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1092/4437/files/fuwov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/9850/0259/files/que_es_epigenetica.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2597/2904/files/58249848562.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9394/1671/files/31218351278.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7372/3800/files/29156982937.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/1376/3235/files/advanced_english_grammar_a_linguistic_approach_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6803/8049/files/bagaz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8140/8420/files/sofiranukexik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6697/3589/files/88209689694.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4896/7061/files/antigona_furiosa_descargar_gratis.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_off00006943.bin
72f7dfd0671c0072f263a0717bd8c387540887668bae9aae36b9cf9197aa373f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6943 5564 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007c28.bin
d40b447b96726a7da244fd3e2ea7fb7b840a895c8dc6d61fd6c7260fc8828604
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C28 10060 bytes