Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b9e4e574f6f69440…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.0 KB Created: 2020-08-11 23:04:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 438bc147508fb0bfdb966ba75b223a2b SHA-1: e62017994ad7195424e95966dcd714cf94a27b92 SHA-256: b9e4e574f6f69440cd76374a22124c545f6504b8afb1e9e9f8f02e755328369f
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=lateral+thinking+exercises+pdf'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded links, many hosted on Shopify. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URLs, reinforcing the lure. The primary intent appears to be redirecting users to malicious infrastructure.

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=lateral+thinking+exercises+pdf
    • http://files.mindbody-solutions.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406663/ecf97582b7.pdf
    • http://files.michaelmoorestudios.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680908/xekulanokupesigit.pdf
    • http://files.junewebsterart.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070313/joluberibijum.pdf
    • http://files.cyndelladdison.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775310/musiwurola_nutugitit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6911/0432/files/agreeing_and_disagreeing.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0601/7186/files/kapawejekilewineze.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6562/0118/files/zadomot.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0767/9397/files/47008108385.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1705/2066/files/56522890847.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7651/8049/files/54770434377.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0962/2687/files/zevezepo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/5689/3847/files/monthly_budget_template.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7547/7416/files/zeleginixubowabogevukuto.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5583/2471/files/50886480874.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4118/4165/files/twitter_archive_viewer.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9647/3749/files/the_devil_in_i_tab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3365/7507/files/lazewigaso.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_off000070f0.bin
0b61978bfd4ae9d631c37a10d33551379b3104df9a7c483e8acfc8cc4b2e0cc5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70F0 5492 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000838f.bin
daad3f347a4f42f432ee9983e619a7c063e36761dba5934b469418034847e28e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x838F 1800 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00008c1d.bin
e90c24e7bde63632bf81dfca6d65597a085b71d2bbc8b3991fcd500e16cf0c10
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8C1D 10044 bytes