Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d29c47da95fecdf9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.3 KB Created: 2020-08-23 11:18:49 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4c2a35016192b4053fccb5a338b585e0 SHA-1: d87a7d2d7616d653c0fe1db91ac551f7ebd02ebb SHA-256: d29c47da95fecdf9af5f5ad86b2bc28af47f01315fdc1dfd37e8a4c450f81d63
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a mass link farm, with many links pointing to Shopify domains, likely for SEO manipulation. One critical heuristic indicates a direct link to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.com'. The document body contains obfuscated text and a reference to the redirector URL, suggesting the primary intent is to lure the user to a malicious site via a deceptive link.

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=body+building+status+videos
    • http://files.adaelementarypto.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071056/jejuxi.pdf
    • http://files.northwoodsquiltguild.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776246/9d87468.pdf
    • http://xokora.speakingevolution.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606255/b0ae96a9bc16.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6124/7138/files/taduvakesexuvagojul.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3311/6315/files/sixth_pay_commission_pay_scales.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7837/5831/files/brisingr_christopher_paolini_espaol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4922/0256/files/spark_plug_gap_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8305/5782/files/jobijusapefos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5122/7048/files/61231965301.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/doworefobose.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6113/3990/files/36949082628.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5797/1362/files/usb_xtaf_xplore.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0827/0244/files/translating_algebraic_equations.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9213/0458/files/kavigatevoda.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4763/3575/files/fufiwezuvop.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_off0000606b.bin
5554f693bdef3af2801391ec75ab62f74f526dda5eb9fbee160adee3533d71ea
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x606B 5248 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007262.bin
a053f686a92bca56137129e15999cdf71eda7445a3dd7556859ff08c23dc6cdf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7262 10116 bytes