Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c24027ba041208f6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.8 KB Created: 2020-09-01 06:00:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3f8d7a0cd8624aaff1cb4b834bbb09ac SHA-1: 3818264440dac4854a0fb00cf5f237a0edb0bef0 SHA-256: c24027ba041208f6e59a2ac6a1cbdfc59f7e425741fe869d52709336bca162d5
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, a common tactic for SEO link farms and redirecting users to malicious sites. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is presented to the user as a "two columns bootstrap template". The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and other Shopify links, suggesting a lure to a malicious site disguised as a template download.

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=two+columns+bootstrap+template
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1298/7802/files/godutekapomuzipujoxeraseg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0602/4101/files/dozukakamoraganirof.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1673/3340/files/sutexokukideporam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2878/1988/files/articles_contracts_fle.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1700/2405/files/java_game_programming_tutorial_for_beginners.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0399/2474/files/54975957567.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5294/9913/files/65308717260.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1cfe37_3aa60e29828b4de78dac5540d9b70f41.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4bbe2ae78e7748c6af34debb2cf1b2be.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/60933b_12a7ed9c44234ad28c1c60341b412586.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d73749051f7d4100bd8489917850ba5c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/74a852_747881040e2840f382c07dd556641158.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_off00006e43.bin
1251b22c0c426ed64693288d796dcd892db172bdcd2577943840ff30f46dc4c9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E43 5260 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000801b.bin
5ace70fe7de3a1c9c9ce53afc9ad5d3f963f41469de9dab60e6e5517224da4b3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x801B 10200 bytes