Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d71135f887af0a63…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.3 KB Created: 2020-08-24 22:17:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 6b5cb2fb23cddf7ce2835a52311e34f4 SHA-1: 5d74331f4fea9d84240ad3bb5d7b8af9bdd1d259 SHA-256: d71135f887af0a63a4fa7f4e8d07f12293a310638bae3a1187915252979428d3
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.cc'. This redirector is likely used to obscure the final malicious destination. The document body contains garbled text but also includes the URL 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=animaker+voice+software', suggesting a social engineering lure. The presence of numerous Shopify links, some benign and some potentially malicious, indicates a link farm strategy to distribute the malicious payload.

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=animaker+voice+software
    • http://files.thecoppereasel.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695372/c6a6f10.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9336/0801/files/functions_of_nouns_worksheet_with_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4934/4421/files/cover_letter_template_for_cashier_job.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1283/2931/files/tent_card_template_avery_5309.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/78578063821.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0466/4947/5237/files/probation_process_evaluation_form_template.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3937/5012/files/kiniwutaxeg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8512/8090/files/poor_economics_abhijit_banerjee_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7916/2263/files/gudusidenujozu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0812/3303/files/bimijitupaf.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_off00006a30.bin
b36a8e6b729119b44b1bb9fb7b60f7c4ff5f6be3cc1cb91bf77ff8cc183c9165
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A30 8028 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008553.bin
4e535db86aaa4870812b273292a138a2985c1f435dcffefabec22cd519939db0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8553 5200 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000096fc.bin
472a12258fd927aa8a15cd07c661ffbd704fbe2fc34674c753b5184ad904db16
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x96FC 10540 bytes