Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f3b3b38246d75d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

106.3 KB Created: 2020-08-29 04:54:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3b39924aba50f01a81d75b9be26bf22a SHA-1: 3c0a0b585f05d5c1f9d2d15562d269ab8c651976 SHA-256: 9f3b3b38246d75d15ec54c2b62549c495a69ddcb11559361aad82f7a386f5629
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, with one heuristic specifically identifying it as a PDF SEO link farm. The primary malicious URL identified is 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=hungary+focus+tree', which is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL, suggesting it is the intended destination for users interacting with the document. The file's purpose appears to be to lure users to this malicious redirector.

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=hungary+focus+tree
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a760784ec44c4ababad79a874c8bf760.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_8a1051f93a97403fbf82fefb01b3a263.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_756b450bb32340e0819044f8a35ca04f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3e6028287d0e476e80f2e59dde7dd58e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_fa89c02855b941628bacb9b8834f225e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9a8115d787d74a518af13af3cde225b7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_fb41f56f20284fd1bd2da0908d5b210d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5941800d48d84f419c6aca8870b62f18.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6ca9ee3b85aa4b28a40204dbd0cb6a60.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2e0c77853acd42b8b06dd8b4745f19d7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_74f4684f5dc84c7a89e180f3b0e84c5b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_761bf783b82f4dceab72610b8bd14f54.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7331cb75466f4d14ab4eec207a33c1d8.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5622/5688/files/zediwutowowuxetaz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7113/6154/files/entrepreneurship_development_notes_for_bba.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6067/2165/files/divuwopevuzejug.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7015/2088/files/sukulexekufif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8532/2658/files/42299606469.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_off00014259.bin
7a6b862fdf37520d756f7b4a18fe829fff4f525bf511cb1ed8a60c5ec1baa456
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14259 5080 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000153b6.bin
4b331f578dd9c8b59dd5b5ad938eea097137b3cbf09a1e37f2c0b4d351e5340a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x153B6 17112 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000186f2.bin
55678a5190ab32087fccd00ff40cb9ee825cafa424f9300e1d07390d3bf96976
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x186F2 16116 bytes