Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3044274862170a8e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.9 KB Created: 2020-09-18 07:47:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 76339c01629b058592aa8cab7615f82c SHA-1: 0998b7cf43fa41dc3ac027359bbb0338dfcfeaa4 SHA-256: 3044274862170a8e6c387a98bc4666f6a5774af81a5fa43dd63d6564d726125f
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, including one identified as a malicious redirector. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further suggests a social engineering attempt to trick the user into clicking the malicious link. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and other benign-looking PDF links, likely part of a link farm to improve search engine ranking for malicious content.

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.link/wix?keyword=arithmetic+sequence+calculator+ti+84
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6197/8023/files/read_incest_comics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2239/3244/files/kipajamelelu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0471/4404/files/33317174769.pdf
    • https://b99366e7-821b-4dd3-8776-a395af941087.filesusr.com/ugd/c162b3_40a58d4cda374d2a96e42a0e31dcf9bc.pdf?index=true
    • https://f2459863-8fc0-4f93-9c7a-e0027a381d0a.filesusr.com/ugd/460efe_1641685dc3a0404aadb7a1afccd1d072.pdf?index=true
    • https://a416b938-9ec0-468a-92cb-fc8123daf7a1.filesusr.com/ugd/04c368_47f9b5d7a97c4e62af70f3b5e625c2c2.pdf?index=true
    • https://3f66778e-72a7-4d68-9bb3-23c3fc1f4be8.filesusr.com/ugd/b5472a_69623455d790473da81ccea5ad18a81e.pdf?index=true
    • https://a19862f5-de6d-4f28-b892-287ebef9ae8c.filesusr.com/ugd/e98895_e754cc6c8cdd49e6a44dbe54f15e2c7b.pdf?index=true
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4747/6648/files/best_vegetables_to_grow_in_central_florida.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4887/6702/files/37500374905.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/rixaraxamixenapo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1758/4283/files/80712168809.pdf
    • https://e542f732-5fb1-4646-8bf5-ee6cda885800.filesusr.com/ugd/9d66c7_76182f65712f402ba52967883094efd8.pdf?index=true
    • https://99753726-115b-4baa-b0b1-fec080eeabde.filesusr.com/ugd/dec231_4ee8c8eb1a6747a893cd03f2fb3cf231.pdf?index=true
    • 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_off0000a7b9.bin
889834f4fa652bc6f785fa65d4598cb96b199a35cf38e7d015e018da8f01fac0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA7B9 5436 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ba14.bin
dea9bfc1b7cd9afd2523546e27b681af6b81a0ae9341f1af508ab909fe39c1e6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBA14 10848 bytes