Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e512280d9d24f5fc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.8 KB Created: 2020-09-02 00:18:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 8e9947fb66d23954a2547bc374de213f SHA-1: a354cf253b3984acfe7795a1987a90f1a4a40162 SHA-256: e512280d9d24f5fc082414eb061d0c40aec81257063602ae421416fa4a6742ae
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a PDF link farm. One of the primary links, 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=impartial+reporter+phone', is flagged as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting it is the intended destination. The presence of numerous other links, including to shopify.com, indicates a strategy to distribute malicious content or manipulate search engine results.

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.cc/wix?keyword=impartial+reporter+phone
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9256/6435/files/unity_break_prefab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8408/6424/files/15198079921.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0458/3089/7827/files/avast_virus_protection.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a31856_2c475a3065884a7aa4671c3665b40de0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ce0e6d_d886e6508eec4e2a876d0bc79b7b435b.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4211/0631/files/82903481870.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2157/4049/files/vaduf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4007/0042/files/boss_new_song_ringtone.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6819/4978/files/ganufug.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6562/0118/files/6331211953.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/217b8a_c1a9a47614f54814ac0bceebd657d910.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_09714c9640e64a18a20a9b21644430a9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3d0627_f5afdd65d9774eb2abd523f734231246.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e32576_ed10697322fd4415b6352c6f581506ef.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_off000077d1.bin
698c514e454117884d78db7236d87658a04718162b20782aa5f47647cd9ec4dc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77D1 4820 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000087ff.bin
db487869d8744c7387745194e60c8acc654f534eea371fe1312a6787d4e94b52
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x87FF 10060 bytes