Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff93a703a3be9eb9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.2 KB Created: 2020-09-01 00:14:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 777b0d0e740a14f2ba57f7768b7bac71 SHA-1: c94cbbc5a35d324f94c59d39199c99e9f7eb7abc SHA-256: ff93a703a3be9eb936e50a759e76a63878e73b9eb107648c4451baf9092b2900
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.ru', which is flagged as malicious. It also exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous external links, many pointing to Shopify. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL and a benign-looking flyer template title, suggesting a lure. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the idea that the user is being prompted to click a link to download something.

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.ru/wix?keyword=valentine%2527+s+bake+sale+flyer+template+free
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6447/5299/files/3745035674.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5033/5384/files/boss_hindi_movie_songs_download_320k.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3421/4561/files/adobe_pack_sign_in.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7334/7488/files/lojefumirus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1734/6976/files/17919412436.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9ea91e_c9ff4961cc2f4175b33f4751bb1bdfd1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_04fd5bf03790481d90c5636122a43b25.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/963627_de351ddfe8c34152b1279606de35d661.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_8b921cfaf69c4d6ab3c0c9fec767e3f7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7b12ea54676b4fd69226921cd694a7aa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4624/8358/files/english_grammar_book_free_download_in_tamil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6109/2255/files/sufazefuxinorisavebavize.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0466/8702/7364/files/kannada_full_hd_1080p_video_songs.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7689/5398/files/latutos.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_off000066db.bin
32ba925fdc6a66a608cca007d7d5a31c9a338bdf744cacb09be3ca32fce3e0ac
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66DB 5352 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000790f.bin
cb23dcc749e7b320b9f3bde0ffaedcc8f511a4aeebb48d2925e1671c172246c4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x790F 10128 bytes