Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90fb463e34534308…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.0 KB Created: 2020-08-31 11:50:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b1530717641cd861902a930048dac7b8 SHA-1: 8baa5b0b456b4174f08b83af5adffb7b81954443 SHA-256: 90fb463e345343084503d2504b31e7fd517fb9ec888eefc9347122013a327ccf
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many of which point to a link farm designed for SEO manipulation. One of these links, https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=algebra+for+olympiad+problems+and+solutions+pdf, is identified as a malicious redirector. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further suggests a deceptive lure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the malicious URL and other benign-looking PDF links, likely to mask the malicious intent.

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=algebra+for+olympiad+problems+and+solutions+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/455f95_3e7e381895e34bada722ee29e4f23a64.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5c54bd2ae6154264994c4dc68574f727.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b77b08_b5794062466f468caeca212075c16886.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/271e65_1c119ade33fb41cbaeb7990e7f560b3f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/40512e_11ecc3794ba648ab8e85ffefe4dd5510.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_fd8539a7c5b848be8d4ab155ebe52973.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a1117a24b7914803b9f29e7f4ed783d4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5af86b_0192b2b37dc544feba16aad9a0a726e9.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2266/3325/files/rubebototazud.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8385/8080/files/39919039419.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0512/4516/files/47043257319.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4854/3142/files/jirilo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0660/5987/files/45496585681.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9900/5863/files/podavinaxovujekima.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0699/9203/files/canon_lbp_2900b_toner_refilling.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6431/0425/files/jumovetuwezokafijofida.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4031/7350/files/tumisolusiz.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_off000067b3.bin
0af7403817f840857cfcda5dd97567df276e62f66c60476fa56c147ff36146e1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67B3 5476 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007a30.bin
b850561f06bb64776b85fbbfcc50af7fc800ce604883e5fdc0598c0728828a3a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A30 9968 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009c52.bin
cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9C52 4324 bytes