Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e541b4867664f17c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

75.9 KB Created: 2020-08-20 09:51:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5696226cccdda533c1cd7f53857bd6d2 SHA-1: a3ffce6e2c8aedfee4c16aebf7681f2481d88b39 SHA-256: e541b4867664f17cc5833578a3d250bc2bd8d50fbd15416e26036255910db6f1
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and numerous other links to PDF files hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. The primary malicious URL is 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=gravesend+reporter+e+edition', which likely serves as a lure to a malicious site.

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/pify?keyword=gravesend+reporter+e+edition
    • http://buwapuvu.bikeacces.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775169/bazuzi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1026/9085/files/atomic_theory_questions_and_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/87195604050.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/dosoxuwananeworatimuk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9900/4827/files/tulofilofuda.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8305/2696/files/95328728708.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/0459/6122/files/kabupaten_bandung_barat_dalam_angka_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4306/0901/files/87478935649.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5356/2526/files/27400955500.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6599/9511/files/high_sierra_dark_mode.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2096/8358/files/98903395793.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000cc78.bin
946bab7f5bea916d491ddb0c23b2194e6c415b0b00a66aef1cc109fc44b99eb8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCC78 5012 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000dd9e.bin
a3b2a02a711f1d2812846d202f9bb7110a4812747188c695a396ccef61986f62
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD9E 15396 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00010e00.bin
ac8bf562210f9163fcb9214d3b5b8e5576665f260beeea2276f286b91eb3ef2a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10E00 16084 bytes