Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8acff2d31727d556…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.1 KB Created: 2020-08-26 08:20:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 8f2a019ed8652b16727cda9b0d335919 SHA-1: 31a4b1d1cad43c1e63a3880e8b6c9de3880b60a8 SHA-256: 8acff2d31727d5561e17b072d29c15bed141850b7b8df11cd31a69a3e8b30e8c
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=mr+clean+magic+eraser+ingredients', suggesting a lure to a malicious site. The presence of a link farm and a malicious redirector indicates an attempt to drive traffic to potentially harmful content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

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=mr+clean+magic+eraser+ingredients
    • http://files.mosaicsbyvirgene.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739924/e1312e16a4b.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7537/0136/files/63758074725.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8792/9252/files/pdf_to_word_software_mac.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8362/0757/files/caldera_spas_owners_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3928/4645/files/xomulujowup.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7199/6053/files/riwokelew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8345/4882/files/94221027892.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6876/6873/files/powimef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5769/2315/files/13472829673.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9993/8211/files/katangian_ng_akademikong_pagsulat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9728/3992/files/bebatikoreboboxuj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4666/4349/files/twitter_direct_message.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_off00005af3.bin
252ab6c6a0d186f9c2b6f51a4fe41360bb209765f98425fe84cd42a34f26fb14
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5AF3 5264 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006cbe.bin
d2511636fe8d9ca5ec922d03dd40b0ae8859415554bff682dc8b502d3995abd6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CBE 10252 bytes