Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a0148f139c030a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.8 KB Created: 2020-08-31 00:06:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7320e45e1faedef71391de630377aeec SHA-1: d8fdf0f1d893322a18c90014be03b8b691cd064c SHA-256: 8a0148f139c030a757a95d7c4d40f7883abc9369daae88ca75789fc5dfbf3349
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing indicating a malicious redirector link. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text that appears to be a lure for 'Chiltons online manuals'. The primary malicious IOC is the URL https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=chiltons+online+manuals, which is linked directly from the document and flagged as malicious. This suggests a phishing or social engineering attack aiming to redirect users to malicious infrastructure.

Heuristics 2

  • 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.
  • 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/wix?keyword=chiltons+online+manuals
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7482/2043/files/vujesifupeneva.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9502/4023/files/xapepopobimakemozosa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1165/3282/files/addictive_drums_2_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7133/2767/files/verivogopabugemetizujejim.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0008/5160/files/36961366206.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/76de1a_2e2b409db6764f0c9494c198153191ac.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/dc98cc_24571604b2964a33a7464fea3c26b26b.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1825/5510/files/85804311332.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4015/1454/files/66713287808.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_off00004a3b.bin
7d1fa4c6e9372878845b15b94773a513d1e757d556d6690b8abca7f2dd86fedd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4A3B 4736 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005a1c.bin
6ceaf2143e12567b9b1f16a41003d794f3eeeb0cc5e6a3632c8e0f42a9ff1fd9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A1C 10368 bytes