Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 adae570473515668…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.8 KB Created: 2020-08-22 03:33:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 8ffd0e37a3e56661bcc457b5df3cae43 SHA-1: e3721399b7fe49dd53d02f8d96148f478ce751de SHA-256: adae570473515668c5bed7c0e5be9c8af0fc675c6151343369e3b953bfa8881c
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to ttraff.com. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF link farm heuristic, with numerous links to Shopify-hosted PDFs, one of which is also listed as an IOC. The document body contains the malicious URL and text related to social media platforms, suggesting a lure to a phishing or scam page.

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=social+media+platforms+synonym
    • http://files.shaeleebakkerprofessionalpresentation.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453171/96731d3cbe3a.pdf
    • http://files.theperfectpigcompany.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775308/4278444.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5630/0186/files/assessment_book_mcdougal_littell_biology_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5671/7224/files/ashampoo_free_license_key.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9703/7730/files/18648933840.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4646/9793/files/rofadidugizidofuwaze.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0661/3912/files/quicktime_alt_1._81.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4424/9499/files/texte_allemand_facile_avec_questions.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1411/0880/files/kiteropidoparukaxitafewu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3153/5524/files/mehndi_design.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9812/1119/files/momafimeg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9229/6358/files/stop_bottom_navigation_animation_android.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_off000060c8.bin
e68f25c72d39aebfbea9fd940e19611128350c2ed350fbdf768e6e296dacfb0d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60C8 5508 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007363.bin
aee21a36a6602caff7b3aa7c50c920afc762cee3498f9ba08aeed9080c21715f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7363 10276 bytes