Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed3c28638a562709…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.6 KB Created: 2020-08-17 13:26:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f0e4afa727c75a9b2fa1ffad680d5802 SHA-1: 42e38a82d13e5326be4d57a8f0384e362327d1c5 SHA-256: ed3c28638a5627095bef138e84199690abc5ed5b5e58aff168f275a915da967f
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'ttraff.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text that appears to be a 'Pan acknowledgement slip', suggesting a lure. The PDF also contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to shopify.com domains, but one critical heuristic indicates a link farm designed to host malicious content. The primary malicious URL is 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=pan+acknowledgement+slip', which is likely used to redirect the user to a malicious site.

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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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=pan+acknowledgement+slip
    • http://files.zpnaturalbeauty.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871740/3276372.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0119/2352/files/nudomitafujen.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5588/8022/files/29191568115.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/7489/1431/files/arpeggio_exercises_guitar_tab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/22537170944.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2376/0536/files/nakasemamipifodewoxevumi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8406/2622/files/kugipaxi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5520/9886/files/troy_bilt_mower_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6219/8425/files/kebokebimetokodawefimab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5158/1597/files/14151658582.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5767/5431/files/kundalini_awakening_process.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/2791/7974/files/get_list_of_worksheets_in_excel_workbook.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8333/2773/files/adobe_premiere_pro_cc_tutorial_indonesia.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2076/3804/files/retigirukanel.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_off00006ab1.bin
b7f317aa0f29cd34df008dc84d8f376d2685882a57a4a5cd0d86477d0adf885a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6AB1 2828 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000074ac.bin
ef0faa4b95ae5b1cfede169e3721687e71e31af6c97c3459adc4e281beb13cb5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74AC 5456 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000873c.bin
b2b9e82da2d876e6a2798d90eedd3bfa72ff7d1709f7c6a766308b25a35621c8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x873C 10080 bytes