PDF malware analysis — malicious · f8c592f21552a659

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.2 KB Created: 2020-08-28 03:22:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)

MD5: 91efe76e20304eea8274fb13cdd20e64 SHA-1: 854a1bce8d7534fc2b970a2efbbd7c5112037330 SHA-256: f8c592f21552a659856db1380f9fa049270928cd7c3b2444023e8b67fe7af896

120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is designed to lead users to further malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Phet interactive simulations balancing chemical equations worksheet answers', suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the malicious link. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm strategy to improve SEO and distribute the malicious payload.

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=phet+interactive+simulations+balancing+chemical+equations+worksheet+answers
- http://files.lifecoachmaurita.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813448/jebugafemav_pobalovikirex_muvefawoga.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0726/2370/files/coolmoviez_hollywood_movies_2016.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/66689816557.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4414/9150/files/78559746128.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0416/5285/files/pesunogiketagizoza.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/6374/4414/files/loss_on_inventory_write_down_balance_sheet.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8031/9130/files/logic_gates.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1026/8068/files/98302259794.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8466/1414/files/28835136824.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6010/9210/files/guild_wars_3.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0423/0805/files/the_big_sleep_1978.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9411/4457/files/batozasavujaxifutererojo.pdf
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5083/3822/files/molotowo.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/
- https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4414/9150/files/78559

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`font_00_sfnt_off0000b9a8.bin` `a17885b4fd577e0298a64705d5055d2ac7c2363fd7008e9cf236b3df412a17d8`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9A8	2828 bytes
`font_01_sfnt_off0000c3a2.bin` `ed8a2d905309da011147e19120ed004d0009552475fb5c201ad345f22e41d196`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC3A2	5696 bytes
`font_02_sfnt_off0000d6e5.bin` `fe555e475e828fb277e17cd307c8b2855219a25c17647795cfeeb6964d530d26`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6E5	10444 bytes

Open this report in the interactive analyzer, or submit your own file for analysis.