Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c4849daf792be663…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.1 KB Created: 2020-08-25 15:55:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 8ec33953b0f5fbbf7ca958349733b38e SHA-1: 33ea56cb7d7f1e4e3eb61d5d212dbee7f556b7dc SHA-256: c4849daf792be663538268f19914d7b9cf6a09e72e157d0a48c7405b0e3201d7
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is designed to lure users to further malicious content. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to 'Algebra nation section 1 topic 3 answers' and the malicious URL, suggesting a phishing or scam attempt. The presence of numerous embedded links, many pointing to Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy, likely to obscure the ultimate destination or to appear more legitimate.

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=algebra+nation+section+1+topic+3+answers
    • http://files.nc-xh.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813366/40568.pdf
    • http://files.businesstestsite.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776420/b6464d3da76.pdf
    • http://files.newsongwellness.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813448/c08b4b5f0f.pdf
    • http://files.jackalopehq.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070581/6330634.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5621/5702/files/vocabulary_character.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6857/1294/files/47208164969.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2308/8290/files/contractions_spelling_worksheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4023/3880/files/3724426322.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5864/0549/files/calendario_de_vacinao_atualizado_2020_ministerio_da_saude.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/0714/3076/files/cetosis_en_ganado_lechero.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/8962/9085/files/dark_souls_2_dragon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7418/1534/files/gungeon_weird_egg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2433/4498/files/70376701322.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/76957488457.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1456/9631/files/ultrasound_guided_cortisone_injection_shoulder_cost.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_off000046e4.bin
1edf311d11f2a410041c6e1d0cbff2c62aa6fdf5424cd08dbd0d78d266e41907
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x46E4 5324 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005917.bin
0a884c83a464ba68ad72b1a84dc966ea9354347cba6eadce66207491c75a4af8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5917 9676 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00007965.bin
05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7965 4324 bytes