Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb3d486d7eaa58b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.4 KB Created: 2020-08-09 21:53:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 462b8ab853ff64a6767523d38a67d61a SHA-1: b2e8cc65176133e8f60292776d0860095c9a1a03 SHA-256: bb3d486d7eaa58b6fe9a545ef56164a4c6bb8daac293cd895e8b20e3e69172ab
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. This indicates an attempt to redirect the user to a malicious site. Additionally, a large number of external PDF links were found, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. The document body contains the URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=causes+of+water+contamination+pdf', reinforcing the malicious redirector finding.

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=causes+of+water+contamination+pdf
    • http://files.southcolbyptso.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739651/fuwoxes.pdf
    • http://files.chinchillaphotography.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710784/dudiwimezefi-gukeluxodi-lifikipezufi.pdf
    • http://files.khunterart.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453399/lukoxifosofug.pdf
    • http://files.bearcreekcommunity.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380126/2571960.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0119/0299/files/sewesijamob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4276/7001/files/94358163273.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9118/9157/files/82615916480.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3486/1987/files/51849215447.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2690/6264/files/vewapirugek.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7362/5500/files/fufitutur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8360/4903/files/pugukesub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/9716/5728/files/cranial_nerves_functional_anatomy.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4777/8469/files/buchungsstze_bungen_lsungen.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9610/4348/files/17279008082.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1403/6376/files/57796701147.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9162/4097/files/lalofikagabap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4179/0871/files/82547211395.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0174/1463/files/gepenudilepebatuvepi.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_off0000d3a4.bin
4ebd0f2c8df5aff4f4e23737a4499866dce232cf15b2bf68fcab26c343bc5188
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD3A4 5268 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e587.bin
386adedaf41bacfa675a05b413c31291d24b02a43e5c7e3e0c797b3b905956fa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE587 12032 bytes