Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d032f0a4d75d3af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.3 KB Created: 2020-08-30 08:01:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 89d75edffc13fdd2c9e31957173f818a SHA-1: a9249d7072a45b6af860bf506ce1bfb7a6bec5c3 SHA-256: 8d032f0a4d75d3afc25b0881c256e7e803beb7eb357e41057990d4995a8abc32
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, a technique often used to create link farms for SEO manipulation or to obscure malicious destinations. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=cuentos+de+las+mil+y+una+noches+para+ni%25C3%25B1os'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text that appears to be a lure for children's stories, likely intended to trick users into clicking the malicious link. The presence of multiple Shopify-hosted PDF links further supports the link farm hypothesis.

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/wix?keyword=cuentos+de+las+mil+y+una+noches+para+ni%25C3%25B1os
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6176/2455/files/temosumewaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3464/7445/files/investigation_discovery_channel_tv_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7446/2631/files/44503501036.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1005/6615/files/dedisogub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8614/1847/files/formative_assessment_tools_for_kindergarten.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1379859d0ae04611b2704b36c748368c.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0466/6458/1285/files/ginagesililib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5575/9011/files/destiny_2_k1_revelation_lost_sector.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/6769/9353/files/relative_risk_and_attributable_risk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4620/7642/files/mikapagozasugima.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4301/9159/files/cambridge_primary_science_stage_2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a234725131204072be73204f96052323.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8e1900_79cad79724564a12a51af5f472451e01.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b4ddae6f16c24df8802168dbf9c83dd1.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007bc0.bin
cd3df7075db13d606510b807616eb84025849c38000606c041e41aa2c7dbf49f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BC0 5532 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008e25.bin
2f9e533ef320ed1499f70f0bee8d6136446888fd1ee4719aa1a20c34c44411a2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8E25 11168 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000b2ff.bin
aec30f2573c04cc2d2cc0796bc539c258932574edb293d0818b790f38db9df81
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2FF 16440 bytes