Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8aca031fb313940…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.0 KB Created: 2020-08-30 23:45:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 449ff78d152691b6669dc05d2029c8b4 SHA-1: 8b0b51aeb1d07f575c54870983a51e4e5b4eb039 SHA-256: b8aca031fb313940db914de4049bda74e1b3c2e0503623a728c41160840ab8b9
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to seemingly benign PDF files hosted on CDNs and Shopify. However, one critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc. This suggests the document is designed to trick users into visiting malicious infrastructure, likely for further exploitation or credential harvesting. No scripts were extracted, and the document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of the malicious redirector is a strong indicator of malicious intent.

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.cc/wix?keyword=ng%25E1%25BB%25ADi+qu%25E1%25BA%25A7n+l%25C3%25B3t+ph%25E1%25BB%25A5+n%25E1%25BB%25AF+ch%25C6%25B0a+gi%25E1%25BA%25B7t
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/de65f7_b799b5a7b3154fcabff1f7ee4853a272.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f84671_60465454ed1249fea9ed429c0d5f4170.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7ea8bb_1ca302ca67544ee1966a6a2055af2343.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_46dc87ecc9b048e3a764ab1bcb320ec0.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6483/5737/files/24158715687.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1615/9385/files/sibonavemulexivok.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2200/7965/files/a4_size_paper_with_lines_and_border.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7105/9608/files/purulutekex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4061/3286/files/81457885661.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3942/2626/files/98834573941.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/dijev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3929/3593/files/84003137523.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1229/8648/files/zaresabikofupexujewo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0460/6276/4187/files/kaledo_style_crack.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5650/4744/files/15769707616.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6180/4197/files/zovarufavenevamipof.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4644/4960/files/10436433643.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_off00005f49.bin
041a87f6af23934936dd50fd0e4cff2c115f0e82ee5ebc18f99350f1b68cd4a9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F49 6372 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000072af.bin
fe0f89e71b6621b2b1ab7046fa5c24d6cc4dc1bb87f8135091aa1aef3fcbd5b5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72AF 21680 bytes