Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c73f864682ddc9b9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.9 KB Created: 2020-08-11 06:51:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4f3fbbd3746ca29b516811e77b5a2d81 SHA-1: 214b0e6ba52a4f045ab940f8a760d35a53ade5a1 SHA-256: c73f864682ddc9b9884fa015c3035826f822a8886477a0541605a528527fc797
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm designed to redirect users. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is used to obscure the final destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the redirector URL and benign-sounding topics like 'Base64 image to pdf java', likely a lure. The presence of numerous Shopify-hosted PDFs suggests an attempt to blend in with legitimate content while distributing malicious links.

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/pify?keyword=base64+image+to+pdf+java
    • http://gigotoju.komodopioneers.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776760/vupaxa.pdf
    • http://files.owossogaming.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776167/f81b4baa5.pdf
    • http://files.valuefund.ca/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871535/8237561.pdf
    • http://tuniwobe.ivoryoungequine.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607163/kifetilijor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9480/2581/files/18872078946.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7387/2807/files/24173762836.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2931/5229/files/nosavezi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4151/9776/files/magazine_proposal_sample.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6495/0945/files/venaxufiratuzi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6243/5739/files/28079381559.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0744/2072/files/28970845184.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4936/1314/files/14547356404.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1687/0296/files/pewitafisegiwaw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1962/2808/files/supizupojepapepap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0871/1080/files/23034008907.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4638/7362/files/28285922584.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8454/6209/files/96084675099.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/81159011373.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_off00006301.bin
c76ec51c698137415b45abe8ea652035f26915448bb8e70e6cc0e62ec8a0aee7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6301 5660 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007651.bin
a5a9670ac4b833c521142f921fad22194cc550172583a1d65897d8574abc4564
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7651 10796 bytes