Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46d202e9ee1818be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.1 KB Created: 2020-08-12 15:07:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9883bd0930a28537789027c4edcedec2 SHA-1: e294990ad98c43b7f393a147b06b3a10cc2c8260 SHA-256: 46d202e9ee1818bead3389f7b086e0810416641d921239302bbfceb982dc796c
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link disguised as a free textbook download. The link leads to ttraff.cc, which is known malicious infrastructure. The document also contains a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, which is indicative of a link farm used for SEO poisoning or to obscure the final malicious destination. The heuristic 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' suggests a social engineering tactic to trick the user into installing something.

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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/pify?keyword=technical+drawing+with+engineering+graphics+15th+edition+pdf+free
    • http://files.greensoundhightech.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776511/5719532.pdf
    • http://files.nbabrothers.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383283/9219429.pdf
    • http://files.shadysideofthetracks.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406762/9744250.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/7218161301.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1877/8781/files/28905182090.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/1697/3476/files/collocation_dictionary.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1126/0062/files/fivexakeneg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4100/3432/files/19686806927.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3296/0409/files/d_d_5e_kobold_race.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7542/0835/files/33262023806.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9156/6493/files/formula_of_mean_median_mode.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3412/2139/files/51652989968.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2705/4237/files/vubuzodarugaseziwux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1734/6965/files/gajiwol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6644/2406/files/java_bubble_sorting.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3572/8794/files/jovizajiti.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_off0000869d.bin
f2750d4be8cda5dbd2c6cc95addb2c27ca7feae937925b7858de0c0603d6adcf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x869D 5632 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000099da.bin
fef536cf90ff94eb99327af559ced5115223bc8102d6dba852be8868dbf6f84b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x99DA 10836 bytes