Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 edbe452e8d6f565e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.0 KB Created: 2020-08-05 08:00:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3f29aabc4a637d5d0ad3149ac34cf732 SHA-1: 26451cb372dd68074eb4888b6f47f3210049440b SHA-256: edbe452e8d6f565ea9d4708cb524e593c94abe08dfcabec4be80b7fdc2582979
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to a malicious domain, identified by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting a lure related to a 'Peter pan novel pdf'. The PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a large number of outbound links, many pointing to benign Shopify domains, but the primary malicious link is to 'ttraff.com'. This suggests a phishing or scam attempt to redirect users to malicious content.

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=peter+pan+novel+pdf
    • http://files.thatssodough.ca/uploads/1/3/0/7/130774962/pakesenusasiba.pdf
    • http://files.three54.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871849/tosusowikunasos.pdf
    • http://files.daniellebschwartz.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070688/xoterowivi-jirapoluveg-sumerezi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5654/6467/files/factorio_belt_balancer_blueprint.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7594/5113/files/gamutufizedenozuzupi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/57308776079.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3119/1975/files/vuboxalak.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0899/1125/files/51723899714.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9567/8359/files/repair_selinux_windows_subsyswtem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4116/8283/files/mesaji.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2674/1405/files/baruxufuveko.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9693/2505/files/pixuwurevatalage.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9075/6259/files/vafanopujijixaxo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3794/9090/files/94999807516.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_off0000a777.bin
240407127f51c4560eaa2f0c8a07f0f109c29020bf0c8c2f9ea3a16b88852ce0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA777 4916 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000b848.bin
5fed01e0de17111cb438a046886d8c0b11eaf0b5fb90eb8f6c2d3956dc1bc213
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB848 10240 bytes