Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8d0f3eb8e6e8b98…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.1 KB Created: 2020-08-13 22:23:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 707f94538189a92461ee0ab75d7b218b SHA-1: c38b1d137cfdafee1670264c1cbda798cd363288 SHA-256: b8d0f3eb8e6e8b98ce05b912cac37b12821ec44b35044fa6b3d94de05fa87a58
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, disguised as an 'Ielts score sheet example'. This heuristic, combined with the presence of numerous other links pointing to PDF files on Shopify, suggests a link farm or phishing attempt. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which is likely used to funnel victims to a further stage of the attack.

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/pify?keyword=ielts+score+sheet+example
    • http://vavope.khalsapto.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408899/wapexipexata-xawidikujadesi.pdf
    • http://files.bluebarnfarm.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381881/98781.pdf
    • http://files.herricksupportstaff.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740362/5717756.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3203/4980/files/59548619948.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/3577/6408/files/biometric_voting_system_project.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3012/6496/files/keritunazuvijeforig.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9573/5976/files/ganpati_atharvashirsha_in_gujarati.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4713/2063/files/asynchronous_generator_working_principle.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6429/4557/files/nupoxugewezevipa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2490/0515/files/64333908848.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3606/5438/files/dexenaliju.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9336/7710/files/gojodowugoxe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8450/4474/files/31649508939.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7791/9129/files/kanatefusola.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5300/7516/files/nezigaregixezopox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8670/7876/files/rewuxuvuko.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006b0e.bin
f4635ef83f37922e9eb4b1e8c47c9979a7f6f9a05d80c3abed747398b093d198
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B0E 4812 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007b60.bin
44c739b89633380ae0ab7baba7a1b4ca8dded9e27182974f853211fac8e6bcaf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B60 9928 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009d2a.bin
1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9D2A 4324 bytes