Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa3dcbe02c260cbc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.4 KB Created: 2020-07-30 09:03:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 8e3f91e70b150599c951a1b8b4a27760 SHA-1: 6ea47ca022a4c7bc087e2e3f2e17605533052c50 SHA-256: aa3dcbe02c260cbcdd9e3f14b0f66d5c7094d8535b84401f053fdb91dd3a5d7f
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, directing users to 'ttraff.cc'. This indicates an attempt to redirect users to potentially harmful content. Additionally, the PDF exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous external links, many pointing to Shopify domains. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'magnetic effect of electric current class 10 worksheet pdf', suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. 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/pify?keyword=magnetic+effect+of+electric+current+class+10+worksheet+pdf
    • http://files.trishatakestravel.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383478/5993549.pdf
    • http://files.gregmoffattknives.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606642/d0d2609d0aa2.pdf
    • http://files.patriciabjorklund.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407445/9610686.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0047/9391/files/72463929947.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7922/7810/files/49070323026.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2960/8101/files/dumidadexanolamavolimafa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1811/7543/files/poditazijopadepovotil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7714/7547/files/21837234093.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8774/0576/files/zosagikogemesobideluxo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0428/7383/files/wefebanuzilifig.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/2860038855.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2998/7489/files/72724775086.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6558/1469/files/tojodiradunemususebosepa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2310/4160/files/7784874478.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_off0000cd41.bin
f2b8fbf2759c2cf9280facb87baa053c4ce00b5ab5fe8ad7d1295e3c9c4d27cc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCD41 5652 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e08f.bin
785dcba92f6912a07c507f4da490ad291c35a5fb892f61301c5f15b3c4e3e248
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE08F 10116 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010335.bin
48f515d49a265d3cec15dbd2d5f47ba1c49b14e3908a9c859c3ba8f821ef457d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10335 16068 bytes