Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea4051ebc56033ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.0 KB Created: 2020-08-03 17:29:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4d74d574612690c091713bdef9015787 SHA-1: 3c77c7198110cfaccc03d839b09cd542f382c614 SHA-256: ea4051ebc56033ce177018bc4136b2a6c012ae99faed4b2aaa52a557e198438d
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, many pointing to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, and one critical link to a known malicious redirector at ttraff.com. This indicates a likely SEO manipulation or link farm attack pattern. The document body itself is largely unreadable binary data, but the presence of the malicious redirector URL is the primary indicator of malicious intent.

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=capitales+de+tous+les+pays+du+monde+pdf
    • http://files.edmonsonvoice.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482884/9494188.pdf
    • http://files.miltonwildcatfootball.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438639/buzosaloxakak-vesalamawopif.pdf
    • http://files.skinstudiobymegan.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775200/salomewagux.pdf
    • http://files.cardifun.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969291/70bed08.pdf
    • http://files.familyrecoverysolutions.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453843/2921867.pdf
    • https://fr.db-city.com/Pays--Capitale
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0819/5738/files/xovepebetuwa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2670/2758/files/29573616551.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9334/3899/files/muvitexim.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5580/7654/files/17065069606.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4695/9261/files/wiz_khalifa_most_of_us_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8776/4387/files/head_first_design_patterns_c_pdf_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4942/6845/files/55819667870.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7538/7043/files/pepajubovamime.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6562/9077/files/ff8_weapons_monthly.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3393/6547/files/44368745507.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1024/4256/files/89317467740.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9269/5458/files/fipuvipewoxapolabotuv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5663/5816/files/zabukosapijupila.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_off00007172.bin
90a3d99ed4f7fc439bb67dd28ff59bf0b432d035aa3f24f18ddc524b8604ec32
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7172 5096 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000082c1.bin
e7d5cbef682b78eeecc95ad0ac91b2822d00a15a34d96ec34455d48969e1ab97
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x82C1 15460 bytes