Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f538e466c5865b6a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.2 KB Created: 2020-08-31 02:21:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 89ad24994f6d2893edcaea48b06d82ee SHA-1: cb4519bea546d81f6a34fb933e4393ad702f3d4f SHA-256: f538e466c5865b6a4f0affb6bfd8a42e19e0d39d9e0b7917d300a505d5527f0a
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com'. It also exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous external links, one of which is to 'cdn.shopify.com'. The presence of a 'download button' lure suggests an attempt to trick the user into clicking the malicious link. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, limiting further analysis of the exact lure.

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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/wix?keyword=charity+link+leicester
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8352/1445/files/very_sad_status_video_female.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0576/2974/files/26011765071.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7511/6964/files/didakobobu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4933/7507/files/49589524434.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9495/7466/files/84768833574.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3570/2949/files/nwn_red_dragon_disciple_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7608/4117/files/38659376414.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2802/9345/files/xigikonutodusitifumulovi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8865/0142/files/tuvixosu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2874/2298/files/36874476935.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3914/6662/files/xezuziguwefevebibaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2875/0241/files/xebowinazimufitakovusa.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005b57.bin
2ed0defc9e47c2a77a42c275d180b8a0364aa382f4bc25fedce262cba3656e54
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B57 4752 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006b6b.bin
dc37461816ec92f0ed1316601fd5c6b06f5c1a5be203c138b3c3c6cdf5da3806
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B6B 2024 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00007503.bin
a16015ba097be17c80bc133c834045c2d6f6fc97db26116ef60cee2c3f7a10cb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7503 10700 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0000997e.bin
05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x997E 4324 bytes