Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8538b7bd9441f0ab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.0 KB Created: 2020-08-26 08:09:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3ef39fd2eb4b352aec9503f90e4135e3 SHA-1: 8d966b0f52ca4ba7c8e2bd83780735433a40043c SHA-256: 8538b7bd9441f0abdcfef7cee6fb653667c7c5fe656bbc4fe211356aa6edf0a9
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to shopify.com domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.cc'. This suggests a link farm strategy to obscure the final malicious destination. The document body, though heavily corrupted, contains fragments of the URL and text that likely served as a lure. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of the malicious redirector and the link farm heuristic strongly indicate an attempt to lead users to a malicious site for phishing or malware delivery.

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.cc/pify?keyword=on-line+henry+retrato+de+um+rel%25C3%25B3gio
    • http://files.ventowinds.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454126/2856845.pdf
    • http://files.dustinwills.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740138/6426330.pdf
    • http://files.megabiteschocolate.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438274/kuvajut.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1320/9246/files/xewumip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0512/4516/files/somogugofekuvebiniraja.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3708/2271/files/86549454682.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5158/1591/files/8th_grade_math_lesson_plans.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8917/4432/files/76270999406.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1110/5191/files/agenda_2020_au.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2820/0096/files/44329673845.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/9365/9543/files/lisuluwapikewekevumawipus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1512/7708/files/new_born_baby_names_in_marathi_with_meaning.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0457/6595/1652/files/89174136093.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3826/7809/files/jegupar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8606/1463/files/bjt_applications.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1594/3845/files/disaster_report_4_plus_summer_memories_switch.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_off00005cbf.bin
90d2ad215a8c8bae1b76d32bbac15a78879ee86032183294a13eb387e69ac750
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5CBF 5360 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006e96.bin
82d92695da1bc963d1008d1292ac34eaab7f2e61f27e8d290b1374a792d408fb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E96 10108 bytes