Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b5bf654ff57d44b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.9 KB Created: 2020-08-19 01:05:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 594e73a2a19570c6044de186d0e235bd SHA-1: 69a52e25cc88390f0979886369e84268ad399eef SHA-256: b5bf654ff57d44b6199bce646fdd4daba00ceafc822a84590dda601cce837148
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 pointing to 'ttraff.com'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded links, many hosted on Shopify. The primary malicious URL is 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=real+answer+to+8%252F+2%2528+2%252B+2%2529', which is likely used to lure users to a malicious site. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the presence of the redirector and link farm strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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=real+answer+to+8%252F+2%2528+2%252B+2%2529
    • http://files.bacorpseptic.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776164/3ad5b27fb2926e.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8134/3900/files/kimazogobevigaxololoremun.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0778/6651/files/82695651667.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8342/3126/files/buddhism_in_japan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4608/2472/files/13414485704.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7679/4021/files/85789141819.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2132/8807/files/domanajebekodedar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1052/2279/files/pujabojaretimogenivade.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8847/8359/files/69739370781.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8117/9029/files/gakunum.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8249/7701/files/22791552551.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2670/1723/files/15560831862.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1785/4366/files/wovofivudewa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0457/5857/8852/files/manual_de_taller_chevrolet_aveo_2006_gratis.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_off00007087.bin
909296803af1d3909721a55301c4c1aa050e085f410d7d6d10e7693036d2c3e2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7087 5296 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000082bb.bin
69ea43fe494b726568243edfaa68576d0e9b1dfdbfa9c7ac6bc22697afd845e6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x82BB 10600 bytes