Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 994465e483f24edb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.7 KB Created: 2020-08-24 20:08:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c9afcbd303bd686ed75d27799bbc235a SHA-1: d92ee2a55f44941f294b592c9872f0661f8ae544 SHA-256: 994465e483f24edb60019bd0071130050992b3b1dd2787d2c815c3faf0a98642
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a lure for 'Creative book cover design templates' and includes a call-to-action button. It embeds numerous external links, including a critical redirector link to ttraff.com, which is known malicious infrastructure. The document body also contains a direct link to ttraff.com and several links to Shopify-hosted PDFs, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt to drive traffic to malicious sites.

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=creative+book+cover+design+templates
    • http://files.omimosa.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408798/fuvejujano-paziboginejuv-fisazevoz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0944/1953/files/jovimoguvabag.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8026/1525/files/napasukexomibaluwepetu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5300/7516/files/specific_gravity_test_of_aggregate.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3876/9303/files/empirical_rule_examples.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0441/8455/files/2373561999.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0443/9562/6662/files/24364713769.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7100/5082/files/jemanudukobajijepunuxitiv.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_off000054f9.bin
fbf63d73187a2882a479a55ef8ddb74f8ea6834348931a15c41268a609016a3d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x54F9 5560 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000067ca.bin
b78e21d2a643c5e7d2b96ab8fa1c18f9733781bf8e3768e40da624af214827f8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67CA 10120 bytes