Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d6eb5d7a077034f8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

121.1 KB Created: 2020-08-20 20:06:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: bcdb49eeb8a6ba090bfda2fe23a8768b SHA-1: 8537e1f610f6c606614f1b294ffae1d347817a6c SHA-256: d6eb5d7a077034f87c48f28190f1c7e91b086cd2ee05013bab424fcc5915eedd
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that lead to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Adwords mobile certification study guide' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the link. The PDF also hosts a large number of external links, many pointing to Shopify domains, likely for SEO manipulation to improve the ranking of 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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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=adwords+mobile+certification+study+guide
    • http://dodokuje.thevictoryhall.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738730/578cc97c684.pdf
    • http://files.teamtowpathroadracing.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303001/7133077.pdf
    • http://files.saintgeorgeontario.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775897/5437716.pdf
    • http://betova.naturallynickelfree.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398560/2fb4bd618ac4346.pdf
    • http://files.clareandkatie.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710779/4982749.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4317/6091/files/xagirovowumorip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2534/0328/files/lixuzowuxa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5279/2982/files/rudirevabezafevupinijiv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3860/4450/files/25189211743.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3685/1874/files/cgeit_review_manual_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6633/6167/files/mimenudizakipila.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6837/5719/files/jexizejovipozipekirugaxu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9744/6816/files/in_those_jeans_lyrics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5298/9605/files/31605626653.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/2753/3724/files/nalini_singh_archangel_s_war_espaol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7720/6178/files/74199687435.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0645/2131/files/tusovafudufupugukusuzu.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0001912c.bin
3e203439389d680861c8b5ae24bf8513b2732b328191d3e53082543351290158
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1912C 5544 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0001a3fe.bin
59fe08a58b9e2f1556d3a963c2aa4480307279b7006466febf70b2ae456b0dee
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1A3FE 10652 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001c86a.bin
cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1C86A 4324 bytes