Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7cda61e5d0e64d03…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.6 KB Created: 2020-08-21 07:17:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 47ecb4634634d670920141a17e4ba167 SHA-1: ad17bac74fe11b6234cfd6525d334de90a70cc7a SHA-256: 7cda61e5d0e64d034a91a51b6e3aebf4235a5aa5f53f7ba88ef94a65e758c827
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic match for PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK, indicating it directs users to malicious infrastructure. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains the URL https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=thanksgiving+math+coloring+worksheets+1st+grade, which is likely part of a lure to disguise the malicious redirect. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to benign Shopify domains but also include several unknown domains that could host further malicious content.

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=thanksgiving+math+coloring+worksheets+1st+grade
    • http://vetaba.topofthesouthclinic.co.nz/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710714/molefosob.pdf
    • http://files.cmoseleymusic.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438313/rurojibimilix_dunox_waxas.pdf
    • http://files.trialinnovations.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483371/varuniraviwipog.pdf
    • http://files.salinaseminarseries.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739918/zikewu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4590/3781/files/mecanismo_de_accion_de_anticonvulsivantes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4722/3458/files/17949728017.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4355/2416/files/2262885475.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4836/9309/files/20079791393.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0550/1852/files/dasgupta_vazirani_algorithms.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7318/3643/files/68446287867.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2608/7064/files/baruxomenepuwakonavesozif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3976/9254/files/lusulurefagudabe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2675/0357/files/pogira.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1471/7597/files/either_and_neither_grammar_rules.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5032/8486/files/79491982822.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5409/4743/files/dadabezuvi.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_off00005140.bin
337938d32a9a3d86ce18f12ac97969ac3fe1ca9061d1f7a1d199e26feab98d1c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5140 5568 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006413.bin
ba17075e03cabd1b244d10af46f68b616340ed9b30ef66e6569377ef1e7f6897
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6413 9692 bytes