Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 42a208d6973501a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.8 KB Created: 2020-08-15 10:44:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 86e5fe2d4e137c416523a5fab7ca3735 SHA-1: 413cfb7be790cb3bac9934ba47e7c88a391c715e SHA-256: 42a208d6973501a0a781499fa4e46a65c5af63c66e0ab2f546ab115c22f14fe0
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/wb?keyword=getting%20out%20of%20debt%20god' which is likely intended to lead users to a phishing or malware distribution site. The document body text and other embedded URLs reinforce the theme of financial advice, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the malicious link. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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/wb?keyword=getting%20out%20of%20debt%20god
    • http://ligegigom.chanceleywilsoninteriors.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681351/bewalubalerodimal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3021/6855/files/52565017013.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0550/1852/files/46190053707.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0426/4601/files/wabizumobomuwugu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0555/8436/files/29114257767.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0002/1667/files/aikido_philosophy.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3656/5923/files/lagowizalasimerarulunok.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4527/3248/files/sociologija_politike.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2312/2084/files/tesadajelisigomiwikajeje.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_off00005a6f.bin
3ae053994205c71a34202166323c22d67f56060d608e9890163a47f8216c529f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A6F 5480 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006d54.bin
4879aa271d2cf519673b10015a9a9069e313fff3d2c95415d2a0c7830e8e417f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D54 9856 bytes