Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0ca31a24155b36e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

114.3 KB Created: 2020-08-09 19:12:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5efa5bf96930b07f692317ef06c33ca9 SHA-1: f97eb8e4c81abded02f238dda81b6da140be55f7 SHA-256: d0ca31a24155b36e640457570ecb3afc973b9e2748a5508efa544a1b676e1d2e
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is designed to lure users into downloading further malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, suggesting it's the primary lure. The PDF also contains a large number of external links, many pointing to Shopify, likely as part of a link farm to improve SEO for malicious content.

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=un+barrage+contre+le+pacifique+roman+pdf
    • http://wumupuvow.civitavecchia.ca/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/4493292.pdf
    • http://files.narrativebuild.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775998/689528c261.pdf
    • http://files.tgja.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438538/0e2e6ba5f3a.pdf
    • http://files.relationship-lab.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741322/xuworiwi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7985/0397/files/acknowledgement_for_report.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2160/6820/files/11502733781.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5784/8224/files/26953463400.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8280/0542/files/83615511944.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6490/8181/files/cell_city_analogy_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4464/2715/files/cause_and_effect_essay_outline_template.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4517/5971/files/pubozumitetojixena.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0507/4838/files/80552654.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7417/4632/files/destro_lock_talents.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2468/7014/files/south_bend_lathe_parts.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6166/5192/files/18190369221.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_off00018017.bin
a767a1e1311d65abae60d5aab4f78177090c7ada7423f1341b5f5d81e35ad686
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x18017 5552 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000192dd.bin
73a630d5484de885dc9484ab389861a6e6cb299e15bd38d35c192a0a13fd608f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x192DD 12928 bytes