Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 22a74220fc717161…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.6 KB Created: 2020-08-24 14:20:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 646184a9dfdc85b5c89b6ab61a208e46 SHA-1: 8eb8dc3e20bcb5f3fb270a800723595f4673b2c2 SHA-256: 22a74220fc717161bd5851fb8f0f4b7495df7aa47390112ae4f264494f3912e6
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1200 Hardware Add-Override

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a link farm. One of the primary links directs to a known malicious redirector service, ttraff.cc, which likely serves to obscure the ultimate malicious destination. The document body itself is heavily corrupted, but the presence of the 'wow classic druid guide wowhead' string suggests a lure, possibly related to gaming content, to entice users to click the malicious links.

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/pify?keyword=wow+classic+druid+guide+wowhead
    • http://zijarog.anniesullivanband.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740249/rojudulun_numedezex.pdf
    • http://zexiwufab.kevinmcgeoughelectrical.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071157/e70f0b653.pdf
    • http://ziwema.filmstillphotography.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636648/6392254a1bcb1bc.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4542/8122/files/rebeborukenitagojer.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5886/4028/files/94902556311.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/7186/8821/files/el_guion_para_cine_documental_carlos_mendoza.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2436/7262/files/nowekewuviginoz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7242/9980/files/tenisonidud.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7870/4536/files/vaguwiniletilitafufisakuf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7837/5829/files/pusorixifigunurepanagifu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6631/0299/files/81658341123.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2793/0011/files/neet_2020_schedule.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5161/3334/files/bojerezemaxasivub.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_off00006149.bin
f929e646ab5cdce547ce15c2e1add21e00a5425ea630ed8119e82c8568e7e2eb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6149 5304 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000735b.bin
de72dac373ecd1fb256b92d1af716b202fc17402621fb4f01faed339d1423c2d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x735B 10052 bytes