Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 82ae02c8e8c315cb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.4 KB Created: 2020-09-01 18:30:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5437c961a23d81be8f3fedc8f747e47a SHA-1: 512858bd7b7eac62611dd7953484960ea963abda SHA-256: 82ae02c8e8c315cb47c824eec89bbad3bf5d46970e193962c19bebd309fdc84b
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm designed to direct users to a malicious redirector. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=cricut+easypress+2+guidelines, which is likely used to deliver a secondary payload or phish for credentials. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the Cricut Easypress 2 and the tool used to generate the PDF, wkhtmltopdf, suggesting a lure related to product guidelines.

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=cricut+easypress+2+guidelines
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0292/0086/files/45641560868.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5180/9959/files/98390781688.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/74535711799.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0346/0259/files/jll_dubai_report.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0481/3721/files/89587954150.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/8407/9264/files/jopofomonijavaxajumaguvuk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6203/4589/files/libros_de_administracion_de_empresas_basico.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7026/6273/files/are_you_sleeping_piano_sheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5872/5018/files/wipakixefixijuriv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/43034806536.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/696b8a_741703a36f3f4304a47353b84427d537.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d1d005_be1907d562384e46828df78522f4f726.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f80014_218f549860e145b5b5fdf30ed3941d1c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5b604d_9a5f256363c94f8c820067139ad076a9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9c9e756a72e4480692bad3d296c7bd31.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_off0000660c.bin
fcbc4f0ffd5f35699e14921ed224c6515107d75006cfc7d7b31fff1c32fe3c6b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x660C 5380 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007870.bin
cba1669403cdabe3eb434e433aa429cd96d1b59b823b68359aaa790fcb86dc13
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7870 10640 bytes