Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 829ddebc5cc745e7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.0 KB Created: 2020-09-05 09:02:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 8d0a96ee819eb8da76ea49ad24b48b47 SHA-1: 2273884831e174325266414e2bd0a2087c438591 SHA-256: 829ddebc5cc745e76398dee94ae657b260ab74b8fd9fb6a8a104e66059e0683d
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, which is the primary indicator of malicious intent. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'word letter templates free' and includes the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking. The file also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to external PDF documents.

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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=word+letter+templates+free
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/625844_61957605180e428ea2114f1712d9a0ef.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e32925c4c4944104ad021826a9565fad.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/89064d_52d8130c7d4e4db28d48f060bb4195e7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/faa7ef_b5119f531be8422d8180f6061503e933.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0d2fda_25054f067b1944e5a8b79040fd83e859.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_04575e3c877248a19f699182ba6cc4b2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6fe114e92fed432bb41651a335f86c31.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0e2875_a5bcfc6381cb422bb111bae43df04535.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1037790485224ff38018261402570516.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/12daa7_107194cc405f47a2922562192259a3f8.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/9238/9531/files/50783908259.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7728/0671/files/77430183935.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6632/5157/files/vocales_y_consonantes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3780/0086/files/887426604.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2022/1607/files/computer_programming_languages_free_download.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_off00006e76.bin
f5230bd79e4b54e6293f9ba9b95e91b0be1d0e3aee574bd9e88fa13a96353b58
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E76 5200 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008017.bin
1d357b83d6fa0318f422bfcb1a0882b421fbc0dc07e5d08d48b37f62321a42b7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8017 10332 bytes