Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cb3d6bbac060b0a5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.7 KB Created: 2020-07-29 09:37:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 90de01a328eb01b6208bce0b1c78fd51 SHA-1: 311a5626c394d6b7820e2053dff242f180d6ed1f SHA-256: cb3d6bbac060b0a5d61a96e82de16a9f305b2df072251eab4ce671c636136c35
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1200 Hardware Add-in T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a link that redirects to malicious infrastructure, as indicated by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic suggests a large number of outbound links, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting PDF files, likely for SEO manipulation or to obscure the malicious redirector. The primary malicious IOC is the ttraff.com URL, which is used in a lure related to a 'guide book'.

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=best+guide+book+for+new+zealand
    • http://files.spikemilwaukeevbc.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775490/c356d.pdf
    • http://files.allinthestory.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406202/xogoluda.pdf
    • http://files.jandrfashions.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695543/4257190.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.c
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8278/4673/files/73654383187.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4202/8182/files/53197626465.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9309/8660/files/1302092800.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4798/4026/files/marafafutegawilolo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4634/5640/files/52623266909.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5199/7592/files/minugavisopuf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5372/5334/files/ledexeferenugi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2029/5064/files/26255312160.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4369/1419/files/rugawunixedatum.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2171/4079/files/65556690738.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6381/3020/files/96744927783.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_off00007872.bin
541c1e88e153b06dc0613b451a16570162f6f362c24d9f4740a82dbbb0a3d2a3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7872 5352 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008ac8.bin
e5dc9ab3e65f929dbb99b71f0bd2918ea6b8c9bfa24dbc9749e0d19129e83bc0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8AC8 10208 bytes