Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f7fac0cbb57d6016…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.8 KB Created: 2020-08-30 11:25:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7063b6574ad58d343e75d0f95ff5b1fa SHA-1: c4ddc86b254f6964bf4fe29632be7ab2ed645490 SHA-256: f7fac0cbb57d6016a6686661f069a89526a593ae8dbe5e41faaec8ca498f090d
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded URLs, a technique often used for SEO poisoning or to host malicious content. One of these URLs, 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=trail+guide+to+learning+curriculum', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and other links to Shopify-hosted PDFs. This suggests the primary purpose is to lure users to malicious infrastructure.

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/wix?keyword=trail+guide+to+learning+curriculum
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4695/9261/files/valitumamepitamofar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/bojakotipizijogi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4140/7644/files/analtica_web_con_google_analytics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6293/5200/files/simple_budget_sheet.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cafc24_e18f481c13604fa09629e709d4417558.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6195/9063/files/nhng_kip_ngi_tn_trong_truyn_ng.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0467/9837/3015/files/panasonic_dmc-_lz20.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/162fe6_1cdc85ecda2a461ebb52fba100f1c642.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2f3ac6_01067e88594b43d5b89d224e499bd092.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_291db2f67b824b52b040b8c96eab7052.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ca9b0a_22ff81a5f7214e90a1e4ada3cc011ca3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/16a96a_e5ec99eecc11434ea2292dcb9abd4dc7.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_off00006df6.bin
4e83750dd4266fd0aefcc1248729bd6655099b18b0c3a9e62e6d85aa43f639e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6DF6 5028 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007ef0.bin
eab4dad42f86f9796c43ceb9e1f6323b84732305d22602d5932f66143e2dadfb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7EF0 11000 bytes