Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6f7f153f1603250…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.0 KB Created: 2020-08-01 14:50:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e3fadfc9bad52d6d182e0ae9ddd96735 SHA-1: 6e3bebdd079d9f268e617ff7fe58d6c316d77b82 SHA-256: a6f7f153f1603250d5b4b809fe7eec863445c543be8c4be6f1017f7a7e8ec806
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm and a malicious redirector URL, indicating a phishing or redirection attempt. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to a 'Honda lawn mower repair manual pdf' and includes the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to download potentially harmful content. The presence of a call-to-action button heuristic further supports this. The primary malicious URL is ttraff.com, which is known for redirecting 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=honda+lawn+mower+repair+manual+pdf
    • http://files.ewengur.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398250/f07777454dda49.pdf
    • http://files.michaelmccarthyart.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406222/0720a1775e0d7.pdf
    • http://files.adamlilley.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379312/laxonezurixan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5896/1315/files/87769552025.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6787/4207/files/53604051542.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3654/0056/files/bezewosimixodosuvonu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7047/9768/files/nirujopetifizoxis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9846/4661/files/65015846367.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9080/4893/files/52627505917.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0821/1619/files/kujumen.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0224/7838/files/23528600636.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8306/3715/files/45219723584.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6936/5654/files/87096025189.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5621/5702/files/fobanawigimeru.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3407/5558/files/vuwepaga.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_off00005499.bin
2f3b2b13c226a2171b3e214b4cd59d19e185109cf4bcbe84ec7fb59fc6c6e80a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5499 5064 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000065cb.bin
cb481d35da0cc0cf90f570cd50dbd9c801ba4f01dd8e645210a5d91059507e89
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65CB 9712 bytes