Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0f726c318d81ccf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.7 KB Created: 2020-08-05 08:44:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c947834c4a21b2e75712c4ce6ff7d3ef SHA-1: d084606868bc37c73482decfe5f78293fdc936c6 SHA-256: e0f726c318d81ccf693cdd24bcf29365ef629f3cdb60620c4d945d43ff20a4dd
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text that appears to be a lure for downloading a PDF, specifically 'Biopsychology 10th edition pdf'. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm designed to obscure the malicious redirector. The heuristic 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' further indicates a social engineering tactic to trick the user into clicking the link, likely to download further malware or steal credentials.

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.
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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=biopsychology+10th+edition+pdf
    • http://gigeme.eteambuilding.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607095/lituwufufor.pdf
    • http://files.tarotnord.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775712/7196635.pdf
    • http://files.vistelilabs.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438079/2d1dc8930.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/rumifagekesodurelakalon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9925/0072/files/57186547486.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/5250/2935/files/pokemon_sprite_gif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7252/0352/files/34900282680.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/3758/5571/files/affidavit_of_motor_vehicle_gift_transfer_texas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3730/1653/files/kawusogigurevomog.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8936/2082/files/antibody_function.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0608/2717/files/legadesonagired.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2929/0390/files/tofizepixunarepaxonom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7720/6165/files/cannot_save_form_information.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7985/1414/files/vewugajepokogab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3546/7682/files/mijadon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9736/6436/files/38594027457.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_off000086a3.bin
fbb057e2d915e63068bf91be8aefa214f6d915a3a7af2be8ea7564b49bb02675
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x86A3 5456 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009950.bin
3f896e3f08fe142c1b22fd07944bd88f95d19eae9073d5cc11822bd1fe2eebe6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9950 10544 bytes