Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 956226f882f535ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.7 KB Created: 2020-08-30 17:27:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4f11998431aec988c24592f520a3fd6d SHA-1: 573a887702144e711bac0097a77cc7c1b0e5838d SHA-256: 956226f882f535ba8f9a8d1acd648041bad0f7aca3461f29b864fd0a5326f7b3
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1200 Hardware Add-in T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying it as a PDF link farm. One of the primary links points to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL, suggesting the document's purpose is to lure users to this malicious site. The presence of multiple Shopify URLs indicates a tactic to host content on seemingly benign platforms before redirecting.

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=simulador+de+examen+de+oposicion+201
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7107/7526/files/95979810494.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4413/4294/files/zogeka.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7007/8617/files/correlation_coefficient_practice_ti_84_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1671/6437/files/causes_of_the_bolshevik_revolution.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1737/9745/files/kodox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3283/6256/files/employee_interview_form.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0120/0289/files/57780385111.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4632/9750/files/23858467244.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f3f4a0e144e5436d86d7252bc50e2254.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1ae88f32c82d4561a969baeaeb101fa2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_cc272b27e15f4de58af9a9a24f09f596.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_8d9ffaeceb504c518a6638ab40a23277.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4b68be_e30f00ef32ca4c119bd7f00a5bc5da31.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e8f3b50f9c8342c4838709e9242c7842.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ce0e6d_2869c88daf6e4567982996b6246438c7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/09273f_ba373f5bff7641fe8c8129660728546a.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005eb8.bin
f02a0d1143efe0d84ae0b1424b4bbc245a545e57a26024b5a903bb688b01d3f7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5EB8 5520 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007148.bin
3e6c323c9e67c04efddc5e9d761c360b2a452c22c2c4ae0ae2381f21a2f52bda
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7148 2344 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00007bb1.bin
67fbd8a5a61fa489527c3cba5f2b528a9ccfad734970a6647c882ee603525d2d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7BB1 12032 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0000a1a9.bin
1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA1A9 4324 bytes