Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 52943cdb3d9d972e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.9 KB Created: 2020-08-29 14:42:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 47352fe44a515e07ceedeea390abc7ea SHA-1: 651957c5f3b88dc6fdfa82ebbba6a5f64ca9e260 SHA-256: 52943cdb3d9d972e9d958d83277ab45c96b8c91ec3f9b1e86236a055952c3427
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a link farm designed to redirect users to a malicious URL, specifically 'https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=alfred+russel+wallace+biografia+pdf'. This technique is often used to obscure the final malicious destination or to engage in SEO poisoning for phishing purposes. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and other benign-looking PDF links, reinforcing the lure.

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=alfred+russel+wallace+biografia+pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0711/3373/files/bakery_business_plan_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8048/9891/files/72953870579.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0844/8920/files/revoguza.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4844/9686/files/55053913589.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8553/7175/files/deadlock_detection_in_os.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_915fbe5ade9346ce8f67f7844ead7270.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c2c33be4e9054e7ab1484c88756a0f58.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/accd1f_bf7bb180d89345c7b111379fccd632d0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ecca063486524e0cb3f99abcde058261.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bd1a8274c51f454a8fef573f351975b6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ec98312f23d4465883f3d64519f1ab75.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_76da63fc28d34fea971dc01f55b7041f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/63d3ad_43859af061d8478bbec50c0f0434ff64.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/90c678_2ebc23e2086847d98da73aed7794ff00.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4abf592978054b1da6bc63980d4e3767.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/affaa6_26685e5a6ca042b084334baee759e995.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d39e2a1635f048eca7c97ccc15301fde.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/
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c2c33be4e9054e7ab1484c

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007663.bin
a84668d66ece360a4ab3e65d10c7a0059d279357ef043484be3ce8e2ffab6692
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7663 5544 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008950.bin
a6fc32d28ccedd4106fac639557ce3e3a98d5fd6018850151e65557af51a8d61
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8950 12260 bytes