Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98a481fc45f7b779…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.6 KB Created: 2020-08-29 11:10:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 67eeec2e17ac1581a1a0e511a3537e3c SHA-1: a2c84f0cff58425ca6094498d4830b2ebde118f7 SHA-256: 98a481fc45f7b779da5757f71d0f09c50efc4f52256aafd9d0b1e0688ebeaa67
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The document body text, though garbled, contains a URL that matches one of the embedded links. This suggests the document is designed to lure users into clicking malicious links, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

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=osrs+warriors+guild
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7383c48d06cb41799bd6d22c2e475cff.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_855f772ebb2943a78ef9bfa6a3b7f4fb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_545d58b1651b46a18cf7f2d7318c0028.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b88d3958e0544203acd54e37eeedbea4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_868d8264d78d4aec8feb2fc91f93e382.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d8c547cbf4ad45df9bf4e94c2775807b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b8364fef62b2402fab8bee5512806ba0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f7faf0c4d8464fb0b9004b021cb2f28d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6dada1dcff33497a9e03ed2b0f4820b9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c69bc9f6b1d746459ab5fe9d771c4fa2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5e7c9c0c6b8a4e9dac1d6d36128f7545.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/lugapib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0453/4692/files/22423441921.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2499/0887/files/1141214855.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8656/0936/files/banking_awareness_arihant.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3380/5471/files/xidivulome.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_off00006995.bin
e5b7cf57bc3869b9ea75f222b37c8aca4864da5a734c95ee1bbf7b2e5d2f4031
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6995 5112 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007b0d.bin
c0e0196a4a39f671481b47170701e1c202ad9b57fb36d5982739a15b6890f361
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B0D 10192 bytes