Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ed0ac323f5a200a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.8 KB Created: 2020-08-30 16:40:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 743f0f6e301df605b7d0f9bcb050760c SHA-1: f821947ebce28de0b88f70c905a2140449c4f77b SHA-256: 4ed0ac323f5a200a6d25c58eb5576c2b9d6355101732e5c6526a06cec19c063b
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, a common tactic for SEO poisoning or redirecting users to malicious sites. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, which is presented in the document body with a keyword related to Cisco network images. This suggests a phishing or social engineering attempt to direct users to malicious infrastructure. The file also contains a large number of links to PDFs hosted on static.usrfiles.com, which is flagged as a link farm.

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.ru/wix?keyword=cisco+iou+l2+l3+collection
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6c30be4bc93049b48aca438e8d593c9a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b56239_5a0723262c6d46069276fc50e9df9bc7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/12745a_f19ba320df9946989394a1872b0e5a56.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/bf650e_3dccfd46ec28425aa69e80409cb2013a.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9529/4109/files/plastic_degrading_enzymes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6948/8798/files/stream_doctor_strange.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8670/8890/files/partnership_dissolution_agreement_template_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1141/3915/files/66079196265.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2282/8198/files/sasozobebigimivipiran.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9928/2845/files/48651100402.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3640/8982/files/67160306583.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/vofelowuloluvazoriwonub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6127/8885/files/20503085303.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0458/3289/6675/files/xituxesulevisarav.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7433/8472/files/nolemivosodot.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0253/4822/files/ishikawa_diagram_templates.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0485/4426/files/dojevoxemim.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_off00004b83.bin
bd744ed8a01cc126192cc93380899aaddb47bfb16224bd628b97ab7c8a2fb432
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4B83 4688 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005b82.bin
7abe8cb4d1bc19ef19274727fb8d2141548b33c128e681a7ad0d2218556060b2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B82 13796 bytes