Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe144194341b8df9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.3 KB Created: 2020-09-01 01:17:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5f68ecf53438289fbe0728bab9b422e8 SHA-1: 385d2449211b7d58ef17fc2277f5230c7def6726 SHA-256: fe144194341b8df96c6443bac07305d1578f6ce9bd06f60a6d093624ebd90a37
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, disguised with a "brain teaser" lure. The heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK confirms this malicious intent. Additionally, the PDF exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute content broadly. The primary IOC is the malicious redirector URL.

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=brain+teaser+pictures+with+answers
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1445/3410/files/amulet_book_5.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/7878/2869/files/89968241505.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1361/1421/files/sepisetulopetuzepu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/bojakotipizijogi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/31492874922.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6192/7318/files/48921227819.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7264/3491/files/84420927275.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4933/7507/files/sesafalazijotovazobi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/5759/8884/files/us_vaccine_adverse_event_reporting_system_vaers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0587/8170/files/5231051832.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/225520_c8a187e121c2413b969d3bed7e5399e5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ccf468dcf2bc49ac84922b3fc48405da.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/67e251_34cedc72fc4443f281bac588261bdc97.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d2751c_f96355ec29114ecf8bafc4c879aee0d1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/bd5c68_ad784015086b4b36a0d7122ce02e499c.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000060d6.bin
ab2f441f68cdd6e0d8b3a6f237138a379add178d8552f85f72d9c19ff7d583d8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60D6 5128 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000724e.bin
33f4e2c8c8f538a19065bbe805ca8fb075a028bba555d8951881502a9b11e708
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x724E 4848 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000842c.bin
9a024fb91ebfc39c534fd67cd8e111a03d4a6c0fddb072ae1f1424e9cd928d80
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x842C 10484 bytes