Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 232ef492eac9c503…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.4 KB Created: 2020-09-01 09:19:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d6577b3b83787e8771a110880422c2cb SHA-1: a969370d16dc8258d0d0dbab0a318c77bff51036 SHA-256: 232ef492eac9c5031a5cb8a41d5af9142ef9978b327677ba45a4de3c0a2e6944
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=att+uverse+virus'. This URL is presented to the user as a download for 'att uverse virus', likely a lure to entice clicks. The document also contains a large number of external PDF links, many of which point to benign content, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt to increase visibility. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, but the presence of the malicious redirector is sufficient evidence of malicious intent.

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.cc/wix?keyword=att+uverse+virus
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/345929_512ab940a2374415ac4e67c24ad3b2b3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5fd5c1_49cea824502a4af6882a758e553cedf5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2b67de8ac186408984b0f9405165d63d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f998caf58f444d5c9ba04198824a294b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2a6ec84b551244b7a8abb88feec3d9f0.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9243/5359/files/adobe_cs5_master_collection_crack.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1509/2893/files/75072_zip_code.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8396/4324/files/explain_elastic_and_inelastic_collision.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_dae1bd802cad410798314ff888dec8cf.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/80c1db_4a2555da871b49ad913e4e3a82a85cf9.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/9208/8734/files/pathfinder_roleplaying_game_advanced.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6308/2146/files/adobe_creative_cloud_student_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2785/5517/files/lijuxawawemivadupaju.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5628/2265/files/wagig.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2021/2629/files/zupekogaboxijix.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_off00004e00.bin
fa5caf5bde09f985368e4461851b8f7b8d5b97ccda6ae0e18e80908be88a5b9a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4E00 4484 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005d58.bin
05e01646e4e583482f6c4343d18bc25edc6939143bfd9d32dbdc7921f1b96a31
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D58 10032 bytes