Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d9c3b30e9f89876…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.0 KB Created: 2020-08-29 10:50:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5063b3b073fb49a00a42835a7c73303b SHA-1: ef3eb99d3602f0a5b2e77e712490a56b0b035c4b SHA-256: 1d9c3b30e9f89876ba72f48d9598c674bd5af390ee859789ae1b5018a6fb7783
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link that redirects to a known malicious domain, identified by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. Additionally, the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a large number of external links, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content. The embedded URL in the document body, 'https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=sony+dream+machine+icf-c218+change+b', is the primary indicator of malicious activity.

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/wix?keyword=sony+dream+machine+icf-c218+change+b
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f1537bbddb36496ba8d58b19bf8e11e4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bb0b269674d1435fa64e45e31a845c02.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bc439d48479d4db6a26c634dda491d70.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a92a98de758e4459bbf394fe8d94a29d.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6362/2297/files/dave_lombardo_music_groups.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6266bfeccb6f4ed397cebcdb63f6a4ad.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1351572647e1432a8131b2b08e7c330b.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8038/4674/files/bonchon_chicken_menu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7187/1912/files/84085884263.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9131/0232/files/autocompletetextview_prevent_random_text.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_off00005d92.bin
602ebe5b0d908eebf0e486bb7a7d5358d7792984997f932d1122084d60edede4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D92 5980 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000071ce.bin
9e3c9593c5a35f33b9527223498943bfbe5ca6231649108e78ccd9ecd2dae265
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71CE 9832 bytes