Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ac66ad24303a90e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.4 KB Created: 2020-08-06 13:00:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4748617fa3562f83c5a857b7c972ef01 SHA-1: 3d243e163c86f8c4e253e2ea81e97c8029133ba3 SHA-256: 9ac66ad24303a90e9274864f119a9729bdf49e4c1db74da34ec62ab4181a960b
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/wb?keyword=the%20frantic%20assembly%20book%20of%20devising%20theatre%20pdf'. It also exhibits a PDF link farm heuristic, with numerous embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL and several other PDF links, suggesting a lure to external content. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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/wb?keyword=the%20frantic%20assembly%20book%20of%20devising%20theatre%20pdf
    • http://lakejive.alexisortizart.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380485/c76caf7c3.pdf
    • http://files.millpro.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776065/cba3e3e.pdf
    • http://files.healthiestsickguy.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969904/vubigorawobinanex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0820/4704/files/viropinufogutov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/lalosukiwafigoledexefes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/libuzab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5670/1348/files/91700266219.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1403/7397/files/89465193272.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0568/9499/files/77597327490.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6971/8182/files/kefatarejilekerol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1555/2672/files/18703797694.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4868/0089/files/morettin_estatstica_bsica.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3061/8020/files/fnaf_gmod_map.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_off00004748.bin
df85880241b921816b0d84d65ed2bffbea0a286a1b2d40889d09f6a5908947d3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4748 5884 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005b34.bin
e0e8cbf8a83f21733513ab707c821cd77e8996db1c93f19d367fafdcb8f2ecdb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B34 9352 bytes