Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56573fba6330396e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.0 KB Created: 2020-08-29 06:20:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 65c56176e08624cad2c31f320ad8dc58 SHA-1: 9db52fa246aad19f7862449abb7b76e32f9eb930 SHA-256: 56573fba6330396e87b43e1c142c611aaee043e9333b6eac9e2dd15bbaa62129
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDFs. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.club/wix?keyword=forza+4+game+guide'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'Forza 4 game guide', suggesting a lure to attract users. The presence of numerous links, including the malicious redirector, indicates a strategy to drive traffic to potentially harmful sites.

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.club/wix?keyword=forza+4+game+guide
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/2444/9437/files/dadepozitolutelavakim.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3484/5079/files/titugajamixukeferofili.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/5518/1987/files/calculus_larson_11th_edition_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8713/3860/files/16013141144.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8976/4245/files/argentina_country_profile.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7546/0517/files/josofixobe.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4e1ad306dfcd4c7594ba4964ccb577ec.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9c881a4cdd3a48caac3f3699895b18b5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_fb0b068f3bd44d729797f132ed3b1342.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ba71dd6e8f044673ba316126623d5139.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7c8bc529c4e34f1496d0b4591b5addac.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_827273defede44d1b6180b8bfe373ef4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_59a7624cf41444e48289a3ad5d33b00f.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_off00006ee0.bin
c8403e6eef4d6b282cdc426386b27001980a2fffa9dc949b8c8d40975e146451
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6EE0 5028 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007fef.bin
0403b87a1a4b0bd8bec4456595b3962dfd301d9866cd4c84572fc7b7211ed5a2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7FEF 10436 bytes