Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8ed0e45ea2070e04…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.3 KB Created: 2020-08-29 17:46:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7578d69309e1845f31eee0df3d3af02f SHA-1: 6a0dea3234348b1f18a55c737fe7e2459cb31227 SHA-256: 8ed0e45ea2070e0459a0a4cfd41913ffe6ca7c871aba0eaaaa818031a2d62217
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=garrys+mod+free+play'. This URL is presented within the document body, suggesting a lure for users to download or access something, in this case, framed as 'Garrys mod free play'. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many pointing to Shopify and static.usrfiles.com, indicates a link farm strategy, likely to obscure the malicious redirector or to improve SEO for malicious content. The document itself is generated by wkhtmltopdf, a tool often used to create PDFs from web content, further supporting the idea that this PDF is a delivery mechanism for external malicious links.

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=garrys+mod+free+play
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9110/7752/files/3533756466.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7437/9158/files/zotutubimepobakodamisumat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8185/9225/files/classifying_rational_and_irrational_numbers.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/20d83a_648b164c8b7549b3b33e95134d915e8f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c2cdf11cf77d41e495478a8651f93925.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2f63a8b367ff4b61b944d919b9c5c01a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3a9250ca44cf4c60bdb3ea944eda2940.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e21ebc83e53545c0992db7a8490f7f50.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c1b09fe3458b4864bedc3aacab44d508.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_acb820017fd2462b91ff59d1f192f457.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d9cca24ff3784981981835209f8035c0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9c7878d63dee4cfcab60368b6ee8049e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_994f233a8f7142e2aa9eb3e797c90b38.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_off000068c0.bin
c84474ed4795eb413f6db6cb9db874995fb64fc8f80f09dde4217ec15aecfc2e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x68C0 5320 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007ad4.bin
a5ad320de66ce39c1348637c835c29afa2585b534508b06ffcd096ceb93071b8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7AD4 9976 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009d25.bin
1f03c5d6b64d4e223c356ffc5bc139a9c6e28cfec3b427255e6d0501c0a5c705
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9D25 17808 bytes