Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e6685ab0a87a693c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.0 KB Created: 2020-08-10 13:37:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7869c3f4659040c613c29f5c834175ab SHA-1: 8f153e257c6fca29b395def709d3e1a70ad9e7a3 SHA-256: e6685ab0a87a693cfc669debd8d7e4f32a308692ed284cbd79c8c25eef59b3e4
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is likely used to obscure the final destination of the malicious payload. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL and numerous other links to Shopify-hosted PDFs, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to attract victims. The primary attack pattern involves luring users to click on the malicious link, leading to a potential compromise.

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=cadena+de+valor+en+salud+pdf
    • http://files.poppitt.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130970004/nerikavalur-zizolojire.pdf
    • http://files.yourtexaspatio.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407877/geretawa.pdf
    • http://files.quentinsmithbooks.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071117/motizukedusaxoweri.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1633/1172/files/57994291813.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4801/8855/files/machine_learning_applications.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2668/5850/files/framed_ink_online.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6303/1448/files/fafunojidaxowibotezirin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3349/3655/files/29152293767.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5440/7580/files/30574246022.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4474/8950/files/puvuwumiro.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4078/3008/files/larupo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4160/4263/files/29763763443.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9703/0805/files/15513384728.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6204/8421/files/bergsonism_deleuze.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5679/9647/files/trumpet_solo_pieces.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5391/6060/files/xulofelugegoni.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5509/4679/files/la_bamba_translation.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8868/2916/files/98221240205.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_off00006066.bin
a391c52844e246ec544dd20d8f9cf6418511e692752d21ebeabefc3beb01d0f0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6066 5000 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000717d.bin
afd8f92503f9f0f32c372599af750309486418251febb715b71f3b2d2763a050
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x717D 11160 bytes