Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d3f203c210ec008…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.3 KB Created: 2020-08-29 13:04:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 40768f2c45d6980288ec1cc019b524c2 SHA-1: 33d2c5639cf3c658b683ed7b3409689a1ffc2a16 SHA-256: 9d3f203c210ec008008ecd4e7c3f4927b7bf2f946fc2907cafdc791b6f9718d7
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, a common tactic for SEO spam and redirecting users to malicious sites. One such link, 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=evaluacion+de+proveedores+iso+9001+ejemplos', is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL, suggesting the primary intent is to redirect the user to this malicious domain. The file was generated by wkhtmltopdf, which can be abused to create malicious PDFs.

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.ru/wix?keyword=evaluacion+de+proveedores+iso+9001+ejemplos
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_823f16bd4e6a43ed96410974cb865342.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_22f20fd1762a4057ae04fd19e1d84c00.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8e1900_70679c3d5b354204b0f7f07e614f9824.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a758d134404a45d2b039a9c8f01d132b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e8ade5e9a72a46d2a013f43be6f77b37.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_80b8a4e5090542099a0308f65006ce3b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7257fe6e0ff84f8d828c00303559191e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_21f6cabfffad41a5b9899de05f52b16f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/12dc78_b7c572ca6870468480c285ad64135792.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e83e3481299b4288ad3cabdcf6e33d37.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4e7b6f4437a048e1b1b8aa2b02122d92.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_40f16f11a69a442181997954451dbc2f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ca8dce59ae8643be993c3adc33c90af7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a141e5303cdf4d0892d752e5f9f955af.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ae0e9126a33546a8a2ba2eddea92654a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a905ced1868b4c9397f96f1750eac592.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_off000065b9.bin
a69eb136ca9ba755eee85bd4fc77611a8b97429c29defce104e33799c2338bad
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65B9 5464 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007830.bin
50c758948f042c139c5cf14e3129b1879192e3c7a216d7b363957c0d402b4912
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7830 11232 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009c49.bin
a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9C49 4324 bytes