Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 daf2a4e3aa4ff610…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.7 KB Created: 2020-08-29 18:55:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f5d34f4e8a1f60d97e7033de1537942f SHA-1: 63dcd99ccb9ea6fe6aef43fa7883e9353dc69e3f SHA-256: daf2a4e3aa4ff610196f6499caa3131935a66fa3c1d4cf9ab999e47e215ee98a
140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure via the URL https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=p.+o.+box+340+waite+park+mn. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a link farm, embedding numerous external links, many pointing to Shopify domains. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains the malicious URL and appears to be a lure, potentially for a callback phishing or tech-support scam, as suggested by another heuristic. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be user interaction with the malicious link.

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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns
  • 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/wix?keyword=p.+o.+box+340+waite+park+mn
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2de0a9dc2c264526926d7851542ac9a4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/de60da_2d56a1e0cdaf4b1aa72b9aad596f7239.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_65e00add5f7e4f819b732a07367ea238.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2051/7537/files/samsung_tab_s2_8._0.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3017/4113/files/baunvo_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/4104/1057/files/totidetubobuva.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1167/8114/files/39853106527.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0071/6694/files/volitaloveroxobis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2253/3276/files/piche_barati_aage_band_baja_songs._pk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0536/9768/files/84477639195.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5276/9192/files/23581100217.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7780/3931/files/65878310445.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_off0000736f.bin
cd6aa0304063e2fdb59c4ff048d1096690e280d13ea1b50a58e900dc16adf26d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x736F 5548 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000864f.bin
2791e229391072d756174ed0f1157a1fee4af6baf1a3dca3f834f7181a3ddd91
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x864F 10520 bytes