Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d6f08cc0878eefa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.6 KB Created: 2020-09-03 02:53:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 965a2b60889c1fe11705fd56513ca534 SHA-1: c4c1adc1dbc42bee0f72488147b181044ffad4e0 SHA-256: 8d6f08cc0878eefa16f784bab11492cf359da755359d12dd720728aa77da73bd
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.me/pify?keyword=business+presentation+letter+template'. This URL is presented within the document body, suggesting a social engineering lure to trick users into clicking. The file also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to PDF files, likely to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious content. The presence of multiple Shopify URLs, while some are confirmed benign, does not negate the malicious nature of the primary redirector.

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/pify?keyword=business+presentation+letter+template
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8408/6424/files/50839199114.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/1503/7082/files/57859566185.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0632/8985/files/50991676917.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7131/5876/files/first_lessons_in_beekeeping.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7078/2624/files/dreamweaver_cs3_full_tutorial.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1e11d0_798e7fedc58247c68109a0c7656a53d6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/575363_8b4f626a90214f4aa8224af290b972c5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/277b62_baf8a51041454d559281983b08022d3d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9df9d6_26b8b630f28d4f34a814ffffa6dc5aa9.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0127/3758/files/56329164913.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0870/4164/files/pufededasi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8171/2287/files/islamabad_weather_report_today.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/6091/5350/files/pictionary_junior_cards.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3739/9960/files/dorisikixibawoj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4028/3541/files/94511473443.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9464/7719/files/algebra_worksheets_grade_6.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/jenodilibaxu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5806/0703/files/52945532061.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_off00006621.bin
eb50780e71ffa0815e62b4ba46ad78f7692d8bf3e8e33b13d254b2195522f070
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6621 5016 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007718.bin
84c13833d07aab0f3e93dffa15f526d64580ab104cb4b6d6d6b0d5608b2ba94f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7718 10068 bytes