Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c36aa36f785afda…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.3 KB Created: 2020-09-04 17:51:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9407fd12323e3e5c1a199c29399e2e07 SHA-1: 48ac0fb7cc98790a252ed37476a4ce0ae9fd9d91 SHA-256: 9c36aa36f785afdab4fda8ec734dc3d365309eba88378179820af3a9ca0fdf1b
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, many of which point to a link farm designed for SEO manipulation. One prominent link leads to a malicious redirector at 'ttraff.club', which likely serves as a lure for further malicious activity. The document body text and embedded links suggest a social engineering tactic to trick users into clicking on malicious URLs.

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.club/wix?keyword=before+he+cheats+a+cappella+sheet+music
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1861/5975/files/jolog.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/87678197609.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3164/2780/files/78798995193.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cb5dea_17cfc601168c4faea8bead096ffc1615.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9eb187_a9cf647de4124634b3c9e64c21288a57.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ca300b_fc57eac8c6314ef99a4c3f81f9ec9cbc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3d1bd5baa19547078d6a8cbcd280e828.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4f270c_33c16a471b23441ab1d3a43c45a7363c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/bdeb4c_0dcd36b46ea74fa4a4e9de236826b8b6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_cc2df725d53a4123ae0e48095199d0fb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c33cdb_ed50b82361304a00bacaac032cec0577.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5b9fdc66ea114b9685bcfc0fda0482bd.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_off0000575c.bin
810b952697df7a459a9591f29c9e2a1ee7c1720443d4d70dc1e3200abe81c5a5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x575C 5080 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000068a8.bin
68e5e0ecb5da138e642ce477178c4a7fbc1b72fdf4a3cc9f295dfc26dde04714
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x68A8 12976 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000091ce.bin
ce7e2e230a41ba6fc2d7d2240890c8289d67876d84a3d076d67c0b48111c8230
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x91CE 4324 bytes