Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9eaddddbb148a0c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.1 KB Created: 2020-08-19 10:10:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4b70cabcd6e0fb5c75864633525d563d SHA-1: 1e21109bddf22994394a8ae5ccf7d80d9894a250 SHA-256: 9eaddddbb148a0c9767d9fb5cdce027f8bcdea294f40751e9aebb6fedb94f8c3
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=cardview+dependencies+in+android, which is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and other links to external PDFs, suggesting a link farm or redirection tactic to deliver further malicious content. The presence of numerous external links, including those hosted on Shopify, indicates an attempt to obscure the ultimate destination and potentially leverage legitimate platforms for hosting.

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=cardview+dependencies+in+android
    • http://files.phillipsbanini.org/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815015/588c46.pdf
    • http://files.byrdhouseandladybugs.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872238/5714882.pdf
    • http://lusepo.audaciousadmin.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969633/zebapaliralo.pdf
    • http://files.powermilers.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814052/8900245.pdf
    • http://files.mkayinthemountains.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740097/wizimeko-zujisin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5165/6102/files/geometric_progression_word_problems.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7788/6367/files/43547128354.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4843/3829/files/pdf_blob_javascript.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5973/9814/files/riwekulimurumazokiz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5990/2624/files/teaching_brochure_templates_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3732/5462/files/34379374814.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8729/7696/files/36801328566.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6479/5044/files/vazarolud.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5549/6866/files/rutupukigelilona.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6880/7578/files/cold_rolled_sheet_metal_properties.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2094/9403/files/lifexevojisedafojevam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2987/2292/files/mivod.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_off00007b24.bin
8b171edcd63ff8eb3b4938cf949dc469e778a8ee460b8ae9b594c4d611efcb83
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B24 5092 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008c97.bin
ca874ec2406444f072ba0fe3610f3c88542c712da1fcf450a6f52e2255d3cd7b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8C97 10052 bytes