Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a67ac8184881854f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.2 KB Created: 2020-08-01 20:47:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 51b4c847afeff2bf987ce0a11d89f96a SHA-1: a21a5806be3ec3d79010609710a9341bf9af3328 SHA-256: a67ac8184881854f2d93151c8e54205cc82bba98ea7e7efc0d23bbe661bfd2df
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is likely used to obscure the final destination of the malicious payload. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the redirector URL and a large number of other URLs hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute the malicious content. The presence of multiple PDF link farm heuristics further supports this. The primary attack vector appears to be social engineering through a deceptive link.

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=king+piece+code
    • http://files.ministryofunderwear.co.uk/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681513/jujikewegiseli_givel.pdf
    • http://files.pvphsmusicboosters.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381006/2488594.pdf
    • http://files.megansz.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408170/eeab0.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4953/3088/files/lofoki.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2779/8943/files/resiserebevupurirem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5381/8790/files/92499553889.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0177/4233/files/ferep.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5156/5724/files/55901589676.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5698/8311/files/rukema.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7818/9205/files/gejaba.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8852/7013/files/34170049571.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1116/8663/files/42051364005.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7410/1160/files/64864396963.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2141/7122/files/34758574279.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7877/9029/files/lunetugewuzurogixuxuz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7764/0092/files/32251794363.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9354/1532/files/pipesuxovekufa.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000066a4.bin
0977e184245ea2af24920238eaf56ae73f139456576196ee35841c899a29ffd4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66A4 9736 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000086d9.bin
4ab4645556c1fc1906ca80455c6d4ac6d465ecd87ad15d7e6257146505675f46
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x86D9 4696 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000096f7.bin
8e6e865f696bc1ed9786062d71f827e4ef53aa401c0345da9b7161bf01f8d4f5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x96F7 9656 bytes