Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e4f259962bd6f38…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.6 KB Created: 2020-09-02 14:16:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9124afa01dcedd375a7c8bba6e527ffd SHA-1: 5439bb3d6fb2846735483b067714b6ff52e8266d SHA-256: 3e4f259962bd6f38b64c11d3bde072c6b5eb9a1327f9e0c8a486d0db1a1b17c9
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, a technique often used for SEO poisoning or to redirect users to malicious sites. One of the primary links points to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, which is likely used to funnel victims to further malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL and references to PDF documents hosted on static.usrfiles.com, suggesting a link farm strategy.

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.ru/wix?keyword=moles+molecules+and+grams+worksheet+cavalcade+publishing
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9d66c7_fe1e44ca7cf04807b650d7aa975e62a0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f5892c_0e4246eb83a84767b30f4478151986c5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a6e5e9_72e17c4830cd40e59d006b8664adf7cf.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9f0f3d8a588b4fbaaa6e81487594759e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fbccce_4668e72139824be99406c3751f6f72c9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6cf804_56a64308971846e39c94e471e23ac10e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1d50b7e52fc346ba9299f91c652bb6f6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a2ebd8_a45cf0030ae74c68b3f8f24eb25beaa2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0594815748e246db8b4e46d8f2873dbc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/07ef24_3f362a747d6a4ac19f8ebae0394ebbc5.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8573/9670/files/bamuv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1389/6352/files/portuguese_english_bilingual_visual_dictionary.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1087/4777/files/zuvarirorasidugum.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9649/0663/files/52285194251.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2482/6014/files/83137306708.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0469/0477/0720/files/2nd_grade_division_worksheets_with_pictures.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1779/7785/files/wuxorujukesudotutabojel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8148/9818/files/telugu_arya_2_film_video_songs.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_off00004e0a.bin
2268ce6f6b03a08946f558053e8c860fad6ceae3dc347d358b4e679f60488666
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4E0A 5848 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000061e5.bin
3ed874c202d761982f5abe751f969093adf8e9b0b0320f79e67935548cff36b7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61E5 10632 bytes