Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f36b8bb2810d1590…

MALICIOUS

PDF

59.6 KB Created: 2020-08-09 17:04:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3de892ce8831d971e32cdaad7f7f88d4 SHA-1: 15b55e9c40dfb19f9c4c629e50fb78926233300b SHA-256: f36b8bb2810d1590de9a099c0187e5745618b1b01986aeb19e0a6deeb461660e
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, many pointing to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. One critical heuristic identified a link to 'ttraff.com', a known malicious redirector, which is further confirmed by the presence of the same URL in the document body. This indicates a phishing or redirection attempt, likely to a scam page related to PayPal, as suggested by the URL's keyword parameter.

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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=paypal+developer+guide+pdf
    • http://fasetosim.bowled-over-woodcrafts.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130815017/0fb7d22.pdf
    • http://files.sfluxedwellings.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163747/db0baf69.pdf
    • http://files.the-beaver-house.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607075/lusoromero.pdf
    • http://files.carmodyhills.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437376/furope.pdf
    • http://files.ralphgibson.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969430/0e4d45.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/zosakasebiribo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3217/2951/files/nixixugexugodibibexolagu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1987/8048/files/cz_85_combat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4492/1766/files/pemiruxegiburonodeniz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4744/3865/files/japoroga.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0729/5140/files/cyclothymia_test.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9925/1093/files/35485628585.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1627/3576/files/urinary_catheters.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0300/1502/files/25198113181.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4632/9750/files/tizab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5407/8871/files/arthashastra_in_tamil_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3089/6026/files/nonesozovi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5905/9615/files/jazujusivuriwupadizilute.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_off0000ab0f.bin
94b481b208d55cd0056e753666b43817ca56b615362d96001a68c6809da0bcac
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAB0F 5192 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000bcdf.bin
dbde1a4d53af9d88b9c54667560de315d8d1c2f23a84dd0c003c4fa7ddbe226f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBCDF 10804 bytes