Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d84cb08b557c6269…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.8 KB Created: 2020-08-30 01:08:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4cafb17fa0dbfc78ee20775dbf346715 SHA-1: 24e3973493f0efeead38994164ee6653806f627f SHA-256: d84cb08b557c6269dd2e46f6d0bf08ec588142d8436a6566645a1c283d3a3d9f
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains, but one specific URL, 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=mario+kart+64+online+emulator', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this same URL, suggesting it is the primary lure. The presence of numerous links, including the malicious one, indicates a link farm or redirection tactic to obscure the final malicious destination. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct execution capabilities.

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/wix?keyword=mario+kart+64+online+emulator
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6246/8516/files/10496834917.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2834/9079/files/desufomanorixewusezudo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7405/9430/files/mood_disorder_dsm_5.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4659/0872/files/nebez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7920/5013/files/55777320270.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4988/6620/files/18090633939.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1913/1285/files/english_language_teaching_approaches_and_methodologies.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7728/0671/files/73524235210.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1791/0941/files/97742091878.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/76de1a_ac450ecc984d469e8852264694473ffb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ae16763e77354fbca7f2a30d6e3d5dbe.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/565485_b7aedfe6d40f449c9c29dd450b394b3e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fe83c3_3baf771b67b64a05a976177ecf039966.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9e54699645d54269996cf0b09f1df699.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9e75a66ee6744e128087b1a2a042d7f4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/67e251_41d892b39f79480a9d58b3f7e15b16b4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_88337e4664b04b30ac83f69ffabd745e.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_off00006da8.bin
7e212bcdceb58a437c65f3bcf32667f243d3d13cad8f70723da58b33043d9c65
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6DA8 4964 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007e7a.bin
c0827d6cd9e0bbaf1c6d9de856e597d23efa45b1a44749cb33d9fc897e67083e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E7A 10456 bytes