Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b930a3769f9d690…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.3 KB Created: 2020-08-20 22:48:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 8abf6aef72aab8b13850c93504b2399c SHA-1: 55226adb584560e2b1dbe1ed6cd7bc274f830549 SHA-256: 4b930a3769f9d6909b73d8e606390806e3598e5c06ca2f41dc53839668ceec7b
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=sql+format+decimal+value'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a link farm, embedding numerous external PDF links, many hosted on shopify.com, likely for SEO manipulation or to obscure the malicious destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and references to 'wkhtmltopdf', suggesting it was generated by a tool. The primary attack pattern involves tricking the user into clicking the malicious link, which then redirects them to potentially harmful 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.cc/pify?keyword=sql+format+decimal+value
    • http://deduworer.teamdominator.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398547/mutagozeguraw.pdf
    • http://files.fereks.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739919/wokexogodarof.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8014/6343/files/55105183488.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0926/1218/files/binigikaxol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4829/6863/files/popesajip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6281/3084/files/81670325829.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5870/8118/files/dermatitis_atopik_pada_dewasa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6397/4805/files/alleluia_alleluia_give_thanks_to_the_risen_lord.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0357/6481/files/2364001690.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6674/4216/files/43804142421.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4965/5203/files/tubomazusenewoneriv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9888/0680/files/dibuxejelim.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4211/1650/files/98174940588.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4735/2480/files/29458286642.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7392/9378/files/ramusuzanijobi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9768/5157/files/52109811391.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_off00005dc1.bin
f6258938a160b62365f40ea248a90bae8ad10013e8245e680b656dca7641733c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5DC1 5276 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006fa1.bin
e469c846026197276833c30b882690e3c580281b03f5def885ef4eceb75efa2a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FA1 10792 bytes