Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc0ade9d9ab82349…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.4 KB Created: 2020-07-31 13:12:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7a795cca8f474f1b2da759fb0bc544e3 SHA-1: a07039f2c2f4709a6479f338700941f5ed697255 SHA-256: cc0ade9d9ab823492075757ea5d53c732e96ffe82e87a9b790627c0235483533
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link pointing to ttraff.com, which is associated with malicious activity. It also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, embedding numerous external PDF links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to be a lure related to budgeting, likely intended to trick users into clicking the 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.com/pify?keyword=top+down+and+bottom+up+budgeting+pdf
    • http://files.gojus.net/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695663/forotid.pdf
    • http://files.bettereatingcoach.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695714/dexonexokim.pdf
    • http://files.moagabrielsson.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775403/mijozisoma-pubaves-nozadulevufutuj.pdf
    • http://files.stefanobazzano.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483108/91cb6dc6a68375.pdf
    • http://files.moagabrielsson.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775403/mijozisom
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6179/6248/files/gevesesekurozofinufifoj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6139/3046/files/witixojimovaweri.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/79086372433.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0176/6310/files/lapowawerifasevi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3762/0381/files/57736188599.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3552/5282/files/18493033771.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8919/9268/files/terilurenofosozisukesag.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7518/2485/files/22537037360.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5209/0022/files/rufipotetigikugimor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4979/4213/files/lamikefirape.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3573/5717/files/sufawadidomub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6116/5723/files/puxosop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5725/9420/files/2759770900.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5427/7532/files/65421260176.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_off00007ef6.bin
e1732c33bb1438cf62613771feba4523cd71da9c72f52b696d198ab43d0b1c7f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7EF6 5116 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000905f.bin
199b3382c3c7e98737f9a50c050994d04f54e3719856c705b5c180b53f1df98a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x905F 10304 bytes