Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 85e32a8de849f530…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.9 KB Created: 2020-09-16 17:13:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 60070c9f448b0ca21959a9a7684cc838 SHA-1: 2e34fc16a980d1e4feaa53f088dde16108c89de4 SHA-256: 85e32a8de849f530184f6dc1a8a89b2114d78deb1512ce9121d1aed02e25e818
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a lure related to a "Panasonic smart tv owners manual" and embeds multiple links. One critical heuristic indicates that the PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically the URL https://ttraff.me/wix?keyword=panasonic+smart+tv+owners+manual. Another heuristic identifies a PDF link farm, with the first URL being https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5654/4409/files/darkness_rises_pc.pdf. The presence of these links and the redirector strongly suggests a phishing or social engineering attack.

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.me/wix?keyword=panasonic+smart+tv+owners+manual
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5654/4409/files/darkness_rises_pc.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/9386/4091/files/flower_shop_flyer_templates.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5276/9192/files/61325434612.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7650/1147/files/52790427744.pdf
    • https://5420ca1e-ec98-4de1-927a-2948ffd11e5d.filesusr.com/ugd/c83fdb_55a831f82cc7410c88ae464f7c6c1149.pdf?index=true
    • https://4af0a01b-7cbc-4e2e-856e-cbe8ecd02381.filesusr.com/ugd/18f527_3d02f6ef78ae46ad9000f6d857408126.pdf?index=true
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1471/5549/files/amrutanubhav_granth.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/9854/5822/files/molecular_biology_of_the_cell_5th_edition_test_bank.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3997/1738/files/10535235183.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6771/8309/files/xutop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5763/5743/files/robaru.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4302/7109/files/dpe_guidelines_on_pay_revision_2007.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7141/5196/files/482187770.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7552/6042/files/66200594106.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_off00005827.bin
7389c9ec8db7cfc68c72366191115759e99c0b0cd1426708e6ef43a999d6c1c4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5827 5100 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006978.bin
c0d731b12df637b64b40a24b549cc6d29509faa962aa540d5ac8f3a0f3a63872
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6978 9816 bytes