Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8e5980102b03d2d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

63.8 KB Created: 2020-08-16 13:48:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7f71d9f2ef5634df7e29611d8627ed9f SHA-1: db2dbfc4f3dc5d37ce1161bfdedf012e94708d8e SHA-256: a8e5980102b03d2da42d0d416ba5b535e06e8b1b4abbb388016b54f81df939b0
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic indicating it's a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/wb?keyword=it's%20okay%20not%20to%20be%20okay%20pdf'. This suggests the document's primary purpose is to lure the user into clicking the malicious link. The file also contains a PDF link farm heuristic, indicating a large number of external links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com, which is a common tactic for SEO poisoning or distributing malicious content. 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.cc/wb?keyword=it
    • http://files.godleyband.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681910/3869207.pdf
    • http://files.sm4g.net/uploads/1/3/0/8/130815009/niposugejenujate.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1415/2607/files/apostles_creed_anglican.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0402/5243/files/2_hour_timer.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4386/4228/files/venodekag.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8140/9436/files/bimanixutikekina.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7900/7398/files/mathematical_logic_a_course_with_exercises_part_ii.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8266/9464/files/approach_definition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/68513135127.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7318/1598/files/40541564147.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4459/2021/files/34446216484.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_off00007ecf.bin
586635a7a97efa71ace3326763e680051124ec47bceaf3982299f254690fef33		 pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7ECF 20136 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ba73.bin
7566a40b05d1b6e5fdf60e4b6694f1ad7170e2bca5fac42210e54e2437af5de0		 pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA73 5184 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000cc30.bin
0def3fc1825d1bf7e4157216d47f4ea6a6f0d95da91675de5948d4b7e4fc210f		 pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC30 11232 bytes

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