Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f426fa71e6b6cba0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.1 KB Created: 2020-08-08 23:10:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 62a1e0342b17542d36495117ee1eda91 SHA-1: ef61b47bc74fd761667c2827b95983b004fd9cd7 SHA-256: f426fa71e6b6cba00729d4054a85298759de4f63208e93b447ae2ce04821225e
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous external links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating it's a malicious redirector link farm. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting it's meant to appear as 'explosion box instructions'. The primary malicious URL identified is ttraff.cc, which likely serves as a redirector to further malicious content. The presence of many Shopify-hosted PDF links suggests an attempt to leverage legitimate platforms for hosting malicious content or for SEO manipulation.

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.cc/pify?keyword=explosion+box+instructions+pdf
    • http://files.angmeringflowershow.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775197/6552449.pdf
    • http://zutebepij.tasteoforovalley.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607163/c847526.pdf
    • http://zujefimu.robertssurf.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071157/3cf947d4c104d9f.pdf
    • http://files.cmcgeewrite.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438437/050a3.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1242/9723/files/xuxoz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6397/5835/files/25916312735.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2560/4513/files/nilosivilobokov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5101/5577/files/40598276187.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/3248/6823/files/dusuxezuragiw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1868/9432/files/crazy_cee_lo_green_chords.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9105/1161/files/antologia_de_leyendas_cortas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1767/4656/files/aaron_smith_dancin_krono_remix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4392/1820/files/viwebakiziwepuk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9005/9157/files/second_life_grid_status.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9702/1861/files/61180866680.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6052/6246/files/homogeneous_differential_equation_practice_problems.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5542/2369/files/69779084537.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4691/0624/files/vonepozutubapotefigulujuw.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_off00007461.bin
29c21cf0d1c1a399cc0209685d8df70aed47e958ba686db45ff56304a97dcd90
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7461 5104 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000085ca.bin
000d2b42caaac1538b999a4b5cc7ee17f9329587b50392f239d52f7adb1b078e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x85CA 10656 bytes