Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b2e0bdd8bb3fbf78…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.2 KB Created: 2020-08-21 11:59:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9393c500314210ae8c6d78d04adbd482 SHA-1: fced5ac46640a8f7d8aa580ac1d9c3488f35a1be SHA-256: b2e0bdd8bb3fbf7889e2c2ba79132572d69b51fa6aca000ab0bf23fd5cb5177a
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a mass of external links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector at ttraff.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting an educational lure ('Physical science textbook grade 11') and the malicious URL. The presence of numerous shopify.com links suggests an attempt to blend in with legitimate content, while the ttraff.com link is the primary malicious payload delivery mechanism.

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=physical+science+textbook+grade+11
    • http://kiwama.kellycraigdesign.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407493/porasukirararuv_vuvutufufate_nenuniwalemef_wosidimuxomipo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1782/1605/files/21385917170.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2821/8010/files/53091578801.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9430/2115/files/10900122706.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8436/3416/files/5873024079.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9209/0784/files/58190573144.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1123/4199/files/accident_and_emergency_radiology_a_survival_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1271/6701/files/favopidan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5283/3695/files/adding_decimals_worksheet_free_printable.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/rejumaxerufu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5709/4559/files/xumevakizobiselof.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5520/9879/files/caring_for_the_elderly_in_the_philippines.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2953/4632/files/lukijidob.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_off000045c8.bin
07d1224a693e4a2c92bc9b79b19c305d24dc1418f2444a22606fcc5bd806b6e3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x45C8 5628 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000058da.bin
c1c9db12b3de02089e370112766c7ea73efdd4d477c3f485cd86c7bfa1b4bba8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x58DA 9912 bytes