Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b43b98cb022b5228…

MALICIOUS

PDF

59.5 KB Created: 2020-08-28 20:59:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 8e0b6553bd397ab1d54b0937a1bd3e19 SHA-1: 48cd759757a34f919f2482e47ea29698e9dba959 SHA-256: b43b98cb022b522812518da0947365f1f71b1c8a918f0e6f0609d87411aa1968
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains multiple embedded links, with one pointing to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=isaiah+53+explained+pdf'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and references a 'pdf' keyword, suggesting a lure to download or view content. The presence of a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm used to obscure the malicious redirector.

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/wix?keyword=isaiah+53+explained+pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8581/6217/files/zigogovapamagijoluvo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6158/2755/files/prova_auditor_fiscal_do_trabalho_2013.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5012/3943/files/vamixijiw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7505/2454/files/velan_globe_valve_catalogue.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6509/8908/files/93834905728.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3257/5132/files/kipumis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5161/3334/files/92378770325.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9318/1087/files/83383033124.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1766/5701/files/4845337726.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7550/8126/files/49830024961.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0460/1371/0503/files/ubuntu_usb_boot_disk_format.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2774/9274/files/pinojiniwojevudadabunola.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0664/7717/files/32757389154.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1633/9111/files/lasiodora_parahybana_tarantula_care_sheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8030/2238/files/gugalojunesewopemobazod.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0291/0104/files/rifumugaruzaw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2940/5600/files/17155836987.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9869/3022/files/wanido.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_off0000a9f7.bin
de1e77a01827962cee2d45a31da30cf42b340b4569f6302e73c2727f13c1e5cd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA9F7 5328 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000bc10.bin
13e654117e0483d5b9f23791a044dd8e74d77e05b3232589ab7da7f6ac8774ae
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC10 10732 bytes