Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4760dc994be058d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.0 KB Created: 2020-08-14 07:37:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 8d68719c623697e273806248a172898d SHA-1: a089c2c0dc8785f6198af65613ffce1e65a47111 SHA-256: 4760dc994be058d586c1d327d645922f5763367e6f50384efe5eefe566643fd8
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, many of which point to external resources. One critical heuristic firing indicates a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'ttraff.cc'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Quittung vorlage privat pdf', suggesting a lure for users seeking a private receipt template. The presence of numerous Shopify-hosted PDF links, while many are confirmed benign, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute the malicious payload. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL.

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=quittung%20vorlage%20privat%20pdf
    • http://lagoj.coolacres.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/zekej.pdf
    • http://files.courtneykanigphotography.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872105/e2ec0d.pdf
    • http://files.blubocker.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969053/9595849.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9418/0001/files/dslextreme._com_webmail.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3588/5725/files/jisojezitibakisizadivud.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/72163988246.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6891/4838/files/47733569568.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7586/9603/files/basic_trial_advocacy_skills.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5060/5461/files/73774540209.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6596/6754/files/35497207981.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9898/8949/files/telugu_andhra_jyothi_news_paper_today_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4433/8838/files/nepenovefunudom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3395/0370/files/surinilulipuru.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1064/4377/files/gejazejaxeku.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3861/3399/files/76767579529.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8390/6724/files/how_to_hide_subreddits.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2313/0009/files/81862012752.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_off00005ee1.bin
6a764e99059075f6a67e41fdf834db971c1eae47fbe008a2d3e530a8d3e8278e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5EE1 5152 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000707b.bin
492f84417cb08aaaeb40bebe691edf3c042f90662c234c0751b87f4521314343
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x707B 11176 bytes