Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eff68619a4c88560…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.4 KB Created: 2020-08-06 20:04:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fe3715c6204f69ddc0a5946c01053df3 SHA-1: 2365dd8a2151f683f98ffede1e9d4a32ba62cbbe SHA-256: eff68619a4c885603d10f4bbc8419be336566c75d9d082b5731c70814b3d3e01
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, which is characteristic of a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results. One of the primary links, https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=tecnica+de+anestesia+general+balanceada+pdf, is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the redirector URL and other PDF links, suggesting a lure to external content. The heuristic firings confirm the malicious redirector and the link farm behavior.

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=tecnica+de+anestesia+general+balanceada+pdf
    • http://files.shopbelieveboutique.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437157/5907014.pdf
    • http://files.thefoodguidetofitness.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606262/774ff03426.pdf
    • http://files.kaylynmariedunn.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438692/sawudotixinen_tesisuzagi_sokuda_zopavin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8909/1998/files/sikojifexen.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4496/9367/files/synonym_questions_and_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8564/3420/files/borokume.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2892/9960/files/3787454409.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8705/9362/files/luzesuwebena.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/98908457197.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1479/1069/files/3117269687.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/gasowezigubufavowi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2961/7057/files/53563676101.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/21244882445.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4439/7468/files/razudifazeba.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0450/9853/files/60414160281.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5496/4629/files/67824206003.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/kefemomorevogik.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_off00006c96.bin
39e12d091c9658c7c4659fa3f78ade71c39442dbeeab04a2b7713f4d349eb450
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C96 5412 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007f04.bin
7a4cb2ced0409e77116b68178c930b9e2491e6778fa9c9957150d38fd5bc6672
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F04 11776 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000a4fc.bin
c79160292b33c460d914d38e19be3db42af125a39f9465015967b60bdd76778b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA4FC 16120 bytes