Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0dc0e26720d01ba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.0 KB Created: 2020-08-14 18:19:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9555447d85755db07831267b511e6d83 SHA-1: aefad0157be2903726db2259d24452a1e911b26a SHA-256: d0dc0e26720d01bafbed89c3a9a3f60a688527a3c511077df3d5434ffdd717d7
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.cc, which is likely intended to deliver a malicious payload. The document body and embedded artifacts suggest a lure related to 'pubg aimbot esp', indicating a social engineering tactic to entice users to click the malicious link. The PDF also hosts a large number of external links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation or to obscure the final malicious destination.

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.cc/pify?keyword=pubg+aimbot+esp
    • http://files.sararosinsky.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739544/041fa27a3925f.pdf
    • http://rekera.maisienichollsphotography.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606523/8644761.pdf
    • http://files.southpauldingdc.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383456/6199770.pdf
    • http://files.earthelementnaturals.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776168/bd78948e0567.pdf
    • http://dopad.pilates-journey.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871674/fonememilujit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6154/1014/files/guzakepusipo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1673/9222/files/lumosedokapilibi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5498/0505/files/80747225521.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4506/8699/files/alcohol_screening_tools.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5486/5320/files/23471793192.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9439/2485/files/classical_and_neo_classical_theory.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1103/0683/files/32605561256.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8073/6151/files/vazinazaw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6976/7842/files/tanatologia_articulos.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_off00008c32.bin
2ed0487a7ec1a289e2c0f296835e39c64cd9bc95728cdefc99757b9d7bbdd9a8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8C32 5152 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009da5.bin
bfda13070cd176d7149ddb6bb9844e7ac4bcdd7dc31d772097458c301851f914
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9DA5 13044 bytes