Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca34f480013c160b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.2 KB Created: 2020-08-20 01:13:57 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5af4e12c77f675b75479e76a3a557dcf SHA-1: 3ac492174302328d31c5e4347bb392a86d92d2f7 SHA-256: ca34f480013c160b90f5940787c62bb93ec7a90777b48bcdf4bdfbd32e398a00
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=worksheet+adverbs+of+frequency+game+board', which is likely intended to lure the user to a malicious site. The presence of numerous other links, many pointing to shopify.com, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute the malicious payload.

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=worksheet+adverbs+of+frequency+game+board
    • http://files.solesuperior.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409090/5136687.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6031/3768/files/22149776779.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7519/0430/files/duwosuzuvanag.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8163/8812/files/99729536227.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3505/7559/files/ujt_relaxation_oscillator.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1910/6466/files/16929087101.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0721/2709/files/environmental_impact_assessment_project_report.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8266/9464/files/new_cutting_edge_elementary_workbook.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5095/0041/files/59013146927.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1673/9222/files/renarixarobavom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4667/4337/files/mebipidapozokazekugip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1809/9615/files/kobix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4670/5051/files/tekaxisawimuj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/9525/7244/files/descriptive_study.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_off00006b72.bin
4247ef6bccb258356cb9161f0da82c7f506f235fe20c10643af9c97ab349de63
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B72 5908 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007f78.bin
8497d7086ae19595bb8d6832780f9dbaedc4e7b8d610ebc7d88fa591a748c580
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F78 10740 bytes