Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4609ff82aaeb9b4a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.0 KB Created: 2020-09-04 20:18:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 74a6d3846a4a3ee7ae53b6e60eb31c70 SHA-1: e572bf74275b2f088d082d722f91368281da7c05 SHA-256: 4609ff82aaeb9b4aaf16cdce5df493c1892eb6ca0b547c56a1db77010309682f
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK, indicating it directs users to malicious infrastructure. It also exhibits PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM behavior, suggesting a large number of outbound links, many of which are to PDFs hosted on Shopify. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains the URL https://ttraff.link/wix?keyword=elementary+statistics+chapter+1+answers, which is flagged as a malicious redirector. This suggests the document's primary purpose is to trick users into clicking this link, likely leading to further malicious content.

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.link/wix?keyword=elementary+statistics+chapter+1+answers
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0664/7717/files/jose_gonzalez_heartbeats.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9146/7176/files/soal_aritmatika_sosial_kelas_7_pilihan_ganda.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4979/4213/files/dipozelafaratedaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8579/0358/files/sigutadidiniwazib.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f08e01_091b49db91b343f09fa4adaaccb16051.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c8a981_02fb1d3220554a41a2cadecb3a1e51b7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9d869b_a4275c2acc08401d915485ada8856bce.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3be3a7_c05a465a80d8425b92cda328f7987fcd.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4477/2759/files/96669073070.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0517/4179/files/applied_mathematics_1_book_free_download.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d55797_24d6dcaab3ba495080906e14209be268.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/73cb9e_e8b7d70cb3c94334b59589e7040052ab.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e3b43b291c5e40c28f94e13b21089103.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8bf3fc_80d43fea59784344aa99b1ced6e36b4d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0cd3a8_8fe9c76069bf4383a36ddfce41a69309.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004a00.bin
ea23152a215e2fbf76c0b6db84b3e22803f3665e40a1c5d5da1cbba92c12ab74
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4A00 5056 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005b12.bin
f50c2b61d79e48e5bb70338ec7d4dca54d4805e38ce02f41f7647e97de442cca
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B12 9812 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00007c91.bin
ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C91 4324 bytes