Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fbf666b2f8886392…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.0 KB Created: 2020-08-21 20:37:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 63b446a6bafd800d8f5917aaee75028a SHA-1: ccce3c00ad9f1bd2271f0db1271a13e1984e9ae9 SHA-256: fbf666b2f88863921c88d199930c35e4d47e42dfd1a5eab195e87e9f4e4cbdcf
120 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 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=acrobat+reader+professional'. This URL is likely used to redirect the user to a malicious download or phishing page. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, reinforcing the malicious intent. The presence of numerous other links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm used for SEO poisoning or to obscure the final malicious destination.

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=acrobat+reader+professional
    • http://files.tysonart.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775588/037531.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/3263/0680/files/15519777546.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9419/5870/files/jonemim.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8073/5138/files/adiga_adiga_naa_songs_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8219/4852/files/18741006614.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2737/2955/files/lanelazewerotubewubewudol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6360/6437/files/types_of_probability_sampling_techniques.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0098/7801/files/3268329328.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4052/9816/files/92260528185.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/1775/8888/files/job_application_template_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0854/0324/files/vakunejun.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2882/4742/files/oxford_discover_student_book_1_free_download.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_off00006657.bin
b6e0b990c6c0f203b57b95245d4a4b1aec9234c589c443188d4fabc0cb20901d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6657 5276 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007846.bin
052f179d95b36aeb460fee3e0d557ab17898ea32154cb9bf11a650bc29a99c97
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7846 10312 bytes