Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 da2bb7e93e73f0e8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.4 KB Created: 2020-08-11 12:03:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3e52f1fe586b4b2166adaafc48e7f25d SHA-1: 9b4d764805278b11b8f7e16edf145736f53fe6a1 SHA-256: da2bb7e93e73f0e86676dfe92f3ef9ed3cb4478203f14b456e68f5ef57d2d29a
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, suggesting a link farm for SEO manipulation or traffic redirection. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is likely the primary malicious payload delivery mechanism. The document body, though heavily corrupted, contains text related to 'pdf to word software mac', indicating a lure to entice users to click the malicious 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=pdf+to+word+software+mac
    • http://files.bartleywilson.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071114/dikeposufad.pdf
    • http://xokarewi.paulvernoncounselling.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437513/566cd.pdf
    • http://dofuda.zingerindexing.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873995/3cf037fc9ba4.pdf
    • http://soxux.ithoughtitoldyoutowaitinthecar.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132680903/330942.pdf
    • http://files.openheartstudio.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814003/logosozafexelib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4872/9766/files/17382015462.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1653/5720/files/28293456757.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7005/3784/files/kukudepiganenemap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8507/8434/files/47054006098.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4029/2520/files/27538144374.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6702/2239/files/33325848979.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/9864/0288/files/algebra_word_problems_grade_9.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/8133/0841/files/ayyappa_swamy_telugu_songs.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7073/2950/files/4458720105.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6300/8664/files/viralaxibokaxisulus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3722/8188/files/algebraic_expressions_grade_6.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8868/3932/files/placenta_previa_download.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_off00006552.bin
95cff69afd3c8b099b225ba6243652da230ee7c5be4a3be28689e3980bff94ca
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6552 5228 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007714.bin
a260d52835858602a7d5af85db717642eca51aa15af490bdb9f900ed12712de6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7714 9820 bytes