Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 882edfff574e5bde…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.7 KB Created: 2020-08-30 17:54:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 6d0a7781d047ba57fa6e33484eb63e74 SHA-1: b0f8678f444b65ecf925d45df7a2d819c9e1439a SHA-256: 882edfff574e5bdeb3dfa3db35bb6076905b950458f8f46c3f148361b383dc5e
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'ttraff.ru'. This URL is presented in a way that mimics a search result for academic content, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, reinforcing its role in the attack. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many pointing to benign content hosting sites, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to increase the visibility of the malicious link.

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=managerial+accounting+mcgraw+hill+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4f6851711c734aeaa122ae97f301933f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b3bc21_e0d6494b55ea4ddc9dd87fa557eb9851.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/91e123_3239486b1e644234a065414783141008.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8990/3259/files/mobumijako.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2270/5063/files/blow_a_kiss_fire_a_gun_song.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5201/4495/files/black_s_law_dictionary_10th_edition_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0645/2131/files/web_2_converter_chrome.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6232/1571/files/83723774421.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_de3c9db0f874497da0122ed0da29be62.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0a0016_1db569824f5b47dc8189da56e0c87eed.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/48f461_de41318f194a43e796259f5c966f6152.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e0f40f6d51cd4ed3a4cd5aecdc74f11a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_189295f9b67f465890b07b2c896eb7bb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/599f1c_85ea4410de4e4c2c9aa28737be910134.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3aca14_a9e3c263df9f41708e5aeaea3eb7c901.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3aca14_4f10ac345f8446488ffa402c92f1f5f4.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bf07.bin
227d5de30b07a21ed1ce7e7cea6012dfd4b3957272a90adecd9160968a19011c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBF07 5372 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000d12c.bin
89a9215d37f58dd64047313a98eb96334f5250813e46ae1422304d907b84021d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD12C 10032 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000f388.bin
9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF388 4324 bytes