Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 db5e32e7932cbe10…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.1 KB Created: 2020-08-16 20:39:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0b05e7a54e6d416f37fdc4ad2989f775 SHA-1: f3cded93bae371b20c8c6b5ebbc903e6d7ae8971 SHA-256: db5e32e7932cbe10816b6d8367491ef010d140eb5f9f1ac5d53452ad8ee01b03
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. This link is presented in the document body as a download for 'brother dcp- l2540dw driver free', indicating a social engineering lure. The PDF also contains a link farm heuristic, suggesting it's part of a larger SEO poisoning or spam campaign. The presence of multiple Shopify URLs, some confirmed benign, alongside the malicious ttraff.com URL, suggests a distribution method leveraging compromised or controlled Shopify sites.

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=brother+dcp-+l2540dw+driver+free
    • http://venes.ulittlepunk.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437361/3088495.pdf
    • http://files.meganwinsormusic.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407655/3f51608.pdf
    • http://files.adevilishpastime.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408970/kowesuxuterekez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1992/6679/files/american_english_vs_british_english_words_list.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9064/1045/files/basic_vba_tutorial_excel_2010.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3865/2069/files/zofutarisa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4801/8855/files/35509808438.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4160/3239/files/molecular_biology_syllabus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2697/2825/files/25279537860.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3502/5831/files/compendium_of_cake_decorating_techniques.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8920/6174/files/nebosuluzak.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9807/8372/files/10567320455.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6009/1287/files/92414401119.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4908/2264/files/pifajewiwinupagi.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_off00005ce8.bin
ddb0be92b8bbfb04d8977d013591972f6adf1a9803b48675c7a19fe8ccda0458
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5CE8 5576 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007012.bin
c01346eeba86c0f307c09886952577bbf10b46770faca38c1bf5dae6efc9d5aa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7012 10432 bytes