Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ac7c2396af47f833…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.2 KB Created: 2020-07-29 11:51:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7def2c65171d543683a07bec9c3b7844 SHA-1: 6d680bb8ca60652bc15221317f799e1844a8b5bc SHA-256: ac7c2396af47f8336af331c8d0d6ddcbc33f7533458cce80d45b2454d7a4b318
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. This URL is presented as a download link for a book, attempting to trick the user into clicking it. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to the lure, reinforcing the malicious intent. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to increase visibility of the malicious download lure.

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=bhagavata+purana+kannada+pdf+free+download
    • http://files.blackscarcomics.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131436967/notojuwegegawekus.pdf
    • http://files.blessedfreebies.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857650/tixigelofuwixed_dizubevefimiwak_samizijomuw_sasanowaz.pdf
    • http://files.bellaswyoming.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682685/e676793664cdea7.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6423/7992/files/53766006400.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4434/6792/files/20862546348.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1737/9745/files/75272177314.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/5578033559.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7141/3160/files/bedifu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9072/9377/files/xukebolopebosot.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7073/5014/files/xuveliwedobesuxafugijasot.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9986/4734/files/fenomakemopifupukujowig.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8716/7649/files/fuveru.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1019/5605/files/nadidafolujew.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_007_off00008955.bin
df40ecd56d99acb73cdf8d55ab6e34efaa0254dc3847ff023de28ce4ec3a6a86
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x8955 21516 bytes
font_00_sfnt_off00006bdd.bin
bfeeb5e4e57d706b78401f8d88492af2de8da8d714c32a2d7429e3869e511d29
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6BDD 5224 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007db1.bin
4cd60777e265fafd80a6c4ac8a8f541642313e2b1c6670a3899fdf55b12f51bc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7DB1 3772 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0000b678.bin
78effa504f36976a9fbded13c5ff15e8ad0df57f666dcdce2a4cb1451745a039
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB678 10840 bytes