Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3cfe69d824aa5c0f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

62.0 KB Created: 2020-08-30 22:45:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 826d2b5622a9747191271afc5ea9ea99 SHA-1: 8b537e45489aa4aa0a07a2a129363f4ff4c04d2d SHA-256: 3cfe69d824aa5c0f4332735a8fce2495947fb8e079fb42df439037c6714c5870
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'ttraff.cc'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'applied petroleum reservoir engineering 2nd edition solution manual', which is likely a lure. The redirector URL is the primary indicator of malicious intent, likely leading to a phishing page or malware download.

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/wix?keyword=applied+petroleum+reservoir+engineering+2nd+edition+solution+manual
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0741/7253/files/46638712602.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4976/2459/files/endocrine_system_function.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8209/4494/files/dolugirared.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1317/6469/files/smaller_illustrator.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/9864/0288/files/brother_compal_dx_sewing_machine_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0470/9299/0110/files/all_in_one_a_certification_exam_guid.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5820/8672/files/34631452141.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5656/9249/files/zaxuwizaluku.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1034/2559/files/jabejawojinerajelape.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6954/6395/files/introductory_circuit_analysis_13th_edition_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3935/9127/files/vefekabovikofunuku.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3069/9414/files/83506663831.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0651/5611/files/lowokatesofutekijofomete.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cbdbb6_e18463f9bca64f6db20bb9379e33315a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7f46b5_8eff7120f2dc435b9cc614ef5e8449ca.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000084a9.bin
01c2c0d9b2a40c1e0f276e05347e100f8d9cdcc6b646707519dc4856b77955c2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x84A9 5460 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009724.bin
7840aa3e6947489b56ed2256e95c564e0d7c8f251787358b2b0a2f9baaa27fd1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9724 2472 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000a167.bin
728fcb45d722e6a4eb96f8c6cbacad9e10f58804fec8bc4eb683e16df317f968
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA167 15148 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0000d0c4.bin
78c70b3be9e842f15a77f44e4aa07596a81857734264b862a988b60c5ab6f296
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD0C4 16564 bytes