Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4e8cc8a4a3762669…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.4 KB Created: 2020-08-31 04:57:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 8aafee84d9edf06b79b7405abb2ce690 SHA-1: bd783e25c5819c5637e51b4f4523d8b5c4d2cec4 SHA-256: 4e8cc8a4a37626696329984c5ffcd1893f5840da081caea61a7ea89458822f2a
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, a common tactic for SEO poisoning or redirecting users to malicious sites. One of the primary URLs, 'https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=vragen+van+George+washington', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this same URL, reinforcing its role in the attack.

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.com/wix?keyword=vragen+van+George+washington
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8344/0030/files/nolasul.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2587/2549/files/55464621612.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4745/0789/files/15978061905.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8151/2613/files/43896064006.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6428/5601/files/definicion_de_contaminacion_ambiental_segun_autores.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9628/6111/files/patotoxim.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2784/7576/files/free_arcmap_10._1_tutorial_data.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9597/2256/files/gladiatus_strategy_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4713/3088/files/lewugojidigox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1315/8565/files/classification_of_periodic_table.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8460/1758/files/12058591548.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0657/2197/files/leluwok.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3863/8241/files/xo_til_we_overdose.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/0283/4594/files/sample_acting_resume.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3703/8491/files/xizexesomuzikojudawewu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8277/6725/files/puvazaxewofimo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5032/0540/files/zekarimegetegabevefutisu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6571/2535/files/defirumofufidenazade.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_off00007082.bin
caf67e3af67fbf1a494c8e7f907a9baaecbbc91ed8564e1da2611576792b363c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7082 5160 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000822b.bin
6de3d670939894ecc84a6b4ccd12702d8844e660737a02c1091dd113928fb5e6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x822B 10120 bytes