Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98205b59b36859d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.9 KB Created: 2020-08-01 06:30:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3ea88f658c4307bbaad051cbb50a20d3 SHA-1: fa68756bdcdd81179c489bc8398d2c9f5d873841 SHA-256: 98205b59b36859d5aafd2f4c933180bea69b233225ee87b844ec229764a2f8d0
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at https://ttraff.com/pify. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the redirector URL and a large number of other PDF links, suggesting a link farm or redirection tactic. The primary intent appears to be directing the user to malicious content via the ttraff.com domain.

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/pify?keyword=minecraft+pat+and+jen+hunger+games
    • http://files.breedingforthefuture.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681566/sutavumuz.pdf
    • http://files.christiancoelho.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131411281/gubowabiz.pdf
    • http://files.sbrmga.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695707/goxutaxuxamamatub.pdf
    • http://files.rebelrustictexas.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696598/8726363.pdf
    • http://files.oakdaleediting.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407047/f8895def662f1.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2378/5370/files/lojenafosebujejib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6214/0840/files/59192989474.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5664/3739/files/78407527637.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1424/9886/files/13251204837.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7497/7945/files/defewuzovizala.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6521/3079/files/mekut.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6635/0998/files/nosojulixupusipas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0777/8717/files/ponunanebuzogabaledod.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5809/4495/files/gozawiwajoxo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8687/9651/files/4199721149.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1269/9798/files/76899804088.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_off000067e7.bin
27ca03613a5c878391ebf6b54e452bdcef40949fb9511efc60a8c9d47c46622f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67E7 5616 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007aeb.bin
f69c2ad9f073091a39fcc69e7280d91e7281c869ab550e9af850b130c675bd8d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7AEB 10424 bytes