Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a154a4f1e1fc0c15…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.6 KB Created: 2020-08-06 12:43:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 71f04f78106be3239f1ad81651de91ca SHA-1: 6e5e165bf2d8eb3957d6a9311cd7dde5374ff746 SHA-256: a154a4f1e1fc0c15154f3c0181f408abb1eaa1373a501ae5821d744ceefb2175
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with one critical link pointing to a known malicious redirector at ttraff.com. The document body, though malformed, contains the title 'Characteristics of life activity pdf' and the URL that triggered the malicious redirector heuristic. The presence of numerous Shopify-hosted PDF links suggests an attempt to obscure the malicious intent by distributing it across many seemingly benign domains. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=characteristics+of+life+activity+pdf
    • http://files.falconfamiliesofky.afaparents.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453267/465011.pdf
    • http://files.offroadandoutdoor.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740586/b6bdd.pdf
    • http://files.skanewellness.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814605/2566650.pdf
    • http://files.tecumsehbakery.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738903/396e9b4b8684.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2656/2722/files/zimobotoroxedizeb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4579/6512/files/98363432398.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1637/9816/files/kinexurumojik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8565/2375/files/57111951151.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7279/0432/files/devobisinalu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0618/8955/files/baxeri.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7920/3992/files/vogiladoragidip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5719/1843/files/26629665666.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4556/0226/files/gupiposelodatimuwet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7068/4317/files/13550751139.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9821/9420/files/sunuvurafegimavepupag.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5199/9637/files/xuzozak.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6971/8182/files/procedure_manual_template.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/vinupagudesezubinu.pdf
    • https://www.cancer.gov/coronavirus
    • 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_off000063f2.bin
11c808f290419591d9a08dcc8bbd36c097eaefecccf2f4aa277fb38cc87e0a21
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63F2 5312 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007608.bin
f9aeb3df24aa9525995a89a5f52258d217a8b99b6815bb3f44e3428d00f6da80
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7608 10336 bytes