Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eccf6b0ba22a4d80…

MALICIOUS

PDF

63.0 KB Created: 2020-08-30 08:43:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: bab5e7edd0951ab6e57b55c03665695e SHA-1: ed73d3ba5828d1bea39f0978d7ef45ba99013a40 SHA-256: eccf6b0ba22a4d80b7d1f755869b93faa25901ee919ba85140d854e904f4ce9a
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document functions as a link farm, embedding numerous links to other PDF files, predominantly hosted on cdn.shopify.com. One of these links, however, directs to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.cc'. The document also contains a heuristic indicating it's a lure for a password-protected archive, suggesting a multi-stage attack where the user is prompted to obtain a password to access a malicious payload. The presence of a malicious redirector and the password archive lure strongly indicate a phishing or social engineering attack.

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.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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=sqlcipher+encryption+android
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1300/5724/files/history_of_biomass_energy.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5245/8396/files/cambio_climatico_argentina.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0147/9321/files/deliwukik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2192/5525/files/65029936648.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0564/8807/files/camino_island.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b5472a_6a380bf70b7b45799524a115d5c291cd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_512ea1efca3748809b0548294fbd1bd7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e3ed1f_1f7aa7d152ae410396204f2133b7df47.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3476/2664/files/acquisition_learning_hypothesis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6019/8557/files/femofidoxuz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0510/8636/files/15734090084.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3445/0840/files/tobigudima.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0382/9657/files/free_fifty_shades_of_grey_trilogy.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4768/0162/files/puvunibawupefenedu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1084/1000/files/38255023302.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1537/0912/files/43906131756.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_off0000aa02.bin
77a225d5fcd55ace71caa2298d1857e815c00fc1633d5f5d7abaca0befaef10f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAA02 5312 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000bc06.bin
ddd6c87104a84053c4603d4b9388bbe3808c76740aa4cda67f9b11879808f9b4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC06 16588 bytes