Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8ec4590f37fe258…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.7 KB Created: 2020-08-22 01:15:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 6b5a063d0111a242e041a4211e58bbbc SHA-1: e7abb4fbbd28bb5cdd1bb2f928af2ece02a37669 SHA-256: c8ec4590f37fe2581d5dd00f38d71002e021ad6530eb47834f58ad0842576266
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'gallery wall template pottery barn' and the malicious URL. The primary intent appears to be directing the user to the ttraff.com redirector, which likely leads to a malicious payload or phishing page.

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=gallery+wall+template+pottery+barn
    • http://files.ukturbulence.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775917/wimesi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8860/8418/files/3238016577.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2901/8262/files/34906022314.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1709/1744/files/xanon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5936/3478/files/rorakitopulixa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8702/8641/files/narepuza.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3295/2477/files/morula_gastrula_blastula.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8440/7199/files/reading_passages_for_ielts_academic.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2857/8467/files/java_decimal_format.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/bobidaxida.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2691/3179/files/vobokejege.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4628/1122/files/sedov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/0719/1701/files/lspdfr_callouts_crash.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_off000060d8.bin
54e7b2a792f89b279101b8a412725eace7fb4595516386e5745dc4bb4ea85296
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60D8 5152 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007264.bin
18ae97003e5164979982b6468480f0b4bad72c14b9559052b4df8bba4470295e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7264 10488 bytes