Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2602ad7cda8558d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.3 KB Created: 2020-08-01 22:24:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: a3a419308029df8835d99148835a4084 SHA-1: 81afde3acecedfb43e92707a9ff3feab36858fb1 SHA-256: a2602ad7cda8558d9197273f6aadf153f8294459a169a4f6a647fd7d899830cd
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'ttraff.cc'. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF link farm heuristic, with numerous links to Shopify-hosted PDFs, likely for SEO poisoning or to obscure the malicious redirector. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports a social engineering attack. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which likely leads to further malicious content.

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.cc/pify?keyword=convert+pdf+to+svg+online
    • http://files.odddogcoffee.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438379/8332125.pdf
    • http://files.splitridgerockies.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636814/vekiwak.pdf
    • http://files.skateyogi.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856331/6141207.pdf
    • http://files.waystudentministries.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969939/9911499.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0905/6666/files/pipagex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/73121007565.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5757/7122/files/87065468307.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8954/2809/files/sogofukos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5345/7320/files/70412446920.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9040/1687/files/battlestar_galatica_season_4.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/sakemiribukewud.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0333/1231/files/61586966296.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7877/0076/files/negejuf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0744/3103/files/46974482643.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2017/3983/files/89008086601.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8581/6218/files/1623455080.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2053/2384/files/97767631765.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_off000064c9.bin
99c57b9e7631a5723b53683f44d324eb5616bd9bd5562d87c2b9f54848e873f3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64C9 4964 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000075ca.bin
f1351bdf7b86810079a09777d3a6210b65c1c4d138babe1592548620c05e2e37
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75CA 10036 bytes