Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de2d17c6b5dc5443…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.7 KB Created: 2020-08-31 12:47:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 59bcaea2db11b1cbb2e950a53601e96a SHA-1: db2a5d957da115ece00524c39a0b337cc6dd0a2c SHA-256: de2d17c6b5dc5443fe81f6600dd4c8a915eb5a5aaa77539b14c2e28132197fc7
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document was identified as malicious due to the presence of numerous embedded links. One critical heuristic firing indicates a PDF link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'ttraff.com'. Another critical heuristic points to a PDF link farm, with the first URL being 'cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9186/1412/files/66670925821.pdf'. The document body contains garbled text but also includes the 'ttraff.com' URL, suggesting a potential lure or redirection mechanism.

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/wix?keyword=james+taylor+sweet+baby+james+chords
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9186/1412/files/66670925821.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/5827/0106/files/client_service_associate_interview_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1653/4685/files/osrs_kalphite_slayer.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4648/5672/files/vunow.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6001/0912/files/72182989605.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9901/2766/files/circle_of_life_piano_sheet_music.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4357/0343/files/48777564449.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3127/2346/files/gepugopo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9471/1203/files/lakanofifefukilusitu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2951/8741/files/zapifijabasuji.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/fakuwonilojovaxibudebu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7056/3239/files/tizamozup.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7220/0608/files/4925857952.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0985/8984/files/gitavirodi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7410/1160/files/64864396963.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3421/2509/files/pufaki.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4295/5687/files/94860893559.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_off00005e97.bin
e73d59a38ddc4cfb212df48f6b8bdcc226668f0f95243beebd34b8877f1ea4a1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E97 5580 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007178.bin
86e37c87868bd6c9a27bca3075a1f11fe63a304fd82ca65147ccb5ca9f094be6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7178 10340 bytes