Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 88748db44b959aa5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.1 KB Created: 2020-08-17 11:31:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 60f81907c9df42b6671cf17bc3d3dabb SHA-1: 20cd15e09932c3cd57e2dd626fa2585c869d759b SHA-256: 88748db44b959aa50b6851bdda17bc1c6b27e87e309caca22edb0cc0ca5f00c7
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=afscme+13+grievance+form'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting it's intended to trick the user into clicking it. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy, likely to improve SEO for malicious content or to obscure the ultimate destination. The file is identified as a PDF, and the heuristics suggest it's designed to redirect users to harmful 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=afscme+13+grievance+form
    • http://files.thelauraxadventures.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379894/9441184.pdf
    • http://files.peterkife.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164456/nonojitiz.pdf
    • http://files.grandparklive.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813510/8041064.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7772/9442/files/35711090724.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7056/3239/files/wamulutipav.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2436/7266/files/ganesarubafatewiduxaturaz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/zosogorimojafi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/6010/4090/files/10th_result_bihar_board_2015_with_marksheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6972/5085/files/letter_t_tracing_worksheets.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4008/6935/files/arithmetic_sequence_and_series_worksheet_with_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2492/5347/files/dekakidirelumanubof.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7813/0593/files/libro_auditoria_administrativa_gratis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0204/4316/files/samuxoweluwuvewesokemewa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2200/0029/files/20228687026.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/8460/7641/files/poxedejubaveti.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8869/9802/files/66308325020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/4016/7320/files/nintendo_3_ds_update.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_off00007198.bin
7c5a2b0869b5eb880521b4df1552c3f3c57cfba1e4790b0fd8dcf2275fcf891d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7198 5436 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000840d.bin
d3e183bd102ac3827ec2bfa91d5be1ebb73ec1b13da23d38ecc70ab93d9e1366
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x840D 10196 bytes