Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a3de80a7318119d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.7 KB Created: 2020-08-29 12:44:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 74c76a73a8ec3a3eebe948b6702958d0 SHA-1: f9b3bb1e6c4e89b44b11c1bc689ba18a3065ce9a SHA-256: 3a3de80a7318119d0c3bd5bae117c9f1b89c0ded961fe79984398a777573d90f
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic identifying it as a PDF link farm. One of the primary links, 'https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=tots+els+digrafs', is flagged as a malicious redirector. This suggests the document's purpose is to direct users to malicious infrastructure, potentially for phishing or malware distribution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, limiting further analysis of the exact lure.

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=tots+els+digrafs
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b2d3ad00f82e41b29ca32be804017d62.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_323949b27eb4474eb77a73467dd604b0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6f8629d34a104fcbbdbd889419644290.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d5a5e16b484240afa9dc71198d5e6b73.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0934/2621/files/batuworaze.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4461/7885/files/star_wars_revisited_mp4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_05539e552f234596bace35d212021be7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2e7d491488694388b49b5e72010ebf10.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/93c935_7fda79e8af1b4620ba72948aae5c81a4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0e9824299a554abc8e5ff03263e283e4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_870f38f1880f485db65ace1972aabca5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1cbe327c883940a3a231bbbf5d79917e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5eab6e5f27954af4a4513c4b51667fe7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_eeb644a8260646139682e89063430a1d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c63e815e773a4c7ea93a1fa3253f668e.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/
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_05539e552f234596bace35d212021be7

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007013.bin
a3ddff5a626dc17eb5b5738fb4bdb972e5232b686ac041ea00cc595f2f46eee1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7013 5024 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008135.bin
f09cedbda5542993748c81a67ec5eb9f2aba8d917438ee3c94d17cad1920e4bc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8135 12828 bytes