Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d658bf772ddd3498…

MALICIOUS

PDF

62.3 KB Created: 2020-09-10 19:20:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 883d710ab9c8db6bfabdd9d4c145dcb2 SHA-1: 5b9aa03b6be41fbb57c13cbc901d561a0a1928de SHA-256: d658bf772ddd349802c8a12ad9763c32b5534a22149059923a206387a26a3547
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm and a direct link to a known malicious redirector, disguised as worksheets. The primary malicious URL is https://ttraff.me/wix?keyword=self+image+and+self+esteem+worksheets, which likely serves as a lure to download further malicious content. The presence of numerous links to benign-looking PDFs on Shopify suggests an attempt to blend in with legitimate content while distributing the malicious redirector.

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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.me/wix?keyword=self+image+and+self+esteem+worksheets
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/97634b_edcac39fe7e84bf7976ae067e994f5ff.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b9801a_a6d1c533c0614e17a68feaf3572449e9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d4df0f_2c99c7e938cc4bff981018b52e081798.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/696117_fecbe88b75584a4db6230346edbecfa0.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8208/7576/files/77980279877.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5305/6149/files/49069140230.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4393/7690/files/arsenale_dataplane_report.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5950/3519/files/82582028251.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0627/9323/files/45304588544.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0655/6320/files/english_grammar_and_vocabulary_for_cambridge_advanced_and_proficiency.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7641/9744/files/bezugolarezojamijave.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9179/5873/files/uppsc_calendar_2019_hindi_download.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/451461_b16e73751f6340ca8e5751893279fb97.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cb4a18_4aa66d48edc042ada34e766c9cdd819b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2694293acdc94bc78151d85ae443748c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cdfdba_1ad9c4e95189413f8f3d283779dc5323.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_off0000b570.bin
8083939bdc6c8ad0a4fd95c185ed90ec1e4aff7235122edbc6d54e121010718f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB570 5580 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000c84e.bin
952392f9f0993695817fd9e1523825a653f41d65cf660b55286e2d724846c42c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC84E 10508 bytes