Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1e34f51c677b4108…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.7 KB Created: 2020-08-30 16:45:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0158c7109ae3f0c394d58a9e52bea0df SHA-1: d8a4a27b5a49f782a6fcd1b09950caa85a56c7d0 SHA-256: 1e34f51c677b410884547efa3053a39efaffe61fc28eed45a619a48f55975fc9
140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a lure instructing the user to enable macros or editing, a common technique to bypass security settings. It also embeds numerous links, with at least one identified as a malicious redirector. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=libros+de+philip+kotler, which likely serves as a gateway to further malicious content. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated but contains references to the malicious URL and other PDF links.

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.
  • Macro/content-enable lure medium SE_ENABLE_LURE
    Document instructs the user to enable macros or editing — a common technique used by malware droppers to bypass Office macro security settings
  • 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=libros+de+philip+kotler
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/71fd01_067770af21ea40dbb34b4834dc8adba0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_fdbfd45da51b41ff8c33ee0b174a7a53.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/804ff6_6b5cf746ee3f4bfd9cf93d5545457b7c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_39521c72e508469eb1881f03761e2d75.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9219f8_efa3db1ed7ed4991b3858580b0ea3596.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6113/9861/files/xezini.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7353/5138/files/84681255772.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e1170fe5bb9b42beaf18c4ff951fc045.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a2d007_16d57904d9074e67b15d8fce03e497b6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e62dca9eb4164cc580e4e8856dd25dcd.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2184/3106/files/31931776949.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6626/9597/files/akkadian_civilization.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6422/2101/files/technical_communications_markel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9282/0647/files/wexadijunizukebovezo.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_off00006803.bin
9114936ab382a1df425951d079c16b2ea8b49b472514d7312b92b98d7ce85553
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6803 4984 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000078e6.bin
ae146413e68897f9419b20885a4c29e7ea28c843cf7912edadfc54f28d46983c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78E6 11800 bytes