Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c09685f166ddee84…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.1 KB Created: 2020-07-30 21:55:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 74cb2eff4f8ffc7d1d9ffee412d558a5 SHA-1: 97c307fd3a7fbdb3b6b9928fff6795bf327900fc SHA-256: c09685f166ddee844b3a1d68e03a06d41884baa5897bca07b824c7cbacfb6a38
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a 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 document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'dream dictionary for dummies pdf', likely serving as a lure to encourage users to click the malicious link.

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=dream+dictionary+for+dummies+pdf
    • http://files.themompreneurva.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813897/jezirobiz.pdf
    • http://files.aponysparadiseequinerescue.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776826/a80105dcd.pdf
    • http://files.lapetitelocket.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437318/3767377.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8685/5840/files/ligek.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9486/8122/files/puxelafewofoka.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/jatud.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1609/3849/files/feregixinopezuv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8919/9268/files/xemosopaminipez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3786/7687/files/zazofitazuxapitikukor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0633/4888/files/5745546687.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9831/6707/files/joriwapowovelizobuxufode.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5541/5445/files/27490293661.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8175/1964/files/ludavokifixefebogabenuzux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5808/6556/files/fajoturulatibokarugoxije.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_off00009d11.bin
3d194faaf1e312203dfaba372fb8834037a01df2c5c6d91efdb1a2c9188163b0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9D11 5252 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000aedd.bin
c84d8bc7674b88f27af897142fba6c75cf6976f46e8ddb41d5633d1b1af63d39
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAEDD 10800 bytes