Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e0d200847336697…

MALICIOUS

PDF

82.3 KB Created: 2020-08-12 02:23:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7b37e7b2bf7b391853a12a3746c5c7c8 SHA-1: c95b5df0ab3e752371f36075b885a6f80d6cf388 SHA-256: 7e0d20084733669793f7acd4299e9c2b173a7faba12cc93d6f9759cefc5905ab
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a prominent link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, disguised as a link to 'behavioural therapy techniques pdf'. This indicates a phishing or social engineering attempt to redirect the user to malicious infrastructure. The file also contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, which is characteristic of SEO link farm abuse to obscure the true malicious destination. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, limiting further analysis of the payload.

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=behavioural+therapy+techniques+pdf
    • http://files.athensprep.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775304/bonuda.pdf
    • http://files.dagomardegroot.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738771/kiterogixolige.pdf
    • http://files.suegreenhampiano.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857758/zemolezitijowe-naxip.pdf
    • http://files.christinesmyczynski.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712093/e1e0485f104a.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2127/9138/files/jaridubimijunevusa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/76957488457.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1458/6521/files/short_rest_dnd.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0649/2823/files/nulimovosibizarup.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5247/4267/files/wasoriwip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9649/7573/files/certificate_of_service_sample.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/7192/5411/files/nutritional_assessment_tools_for_nurses.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6666/8694/files/kufixapa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5612/8412/files/30270101289.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0521/3847/files/73496105030.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6281/9990/files/13068479810.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9066/4860/files/riwutigeg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/96280370261.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_off00010563.bin
7f58f71218a6ee53896b7939e1b0074b75d2cef51b31eab2f301dc16338a16ce
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10563 5580 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011863.bin
e6b935f0c82378705fae20d25c98a59665c7fcd4f24d079e793b662c20e9faed
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11863 10404 bytes