Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a085b184a37f0929…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.3 KB Created: 2020-08-21 15:56:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 6f6543134cb78bac4c3114bd7c862684 SHA-1: 3d23eb50893906f17159a5e1225707ddd9e62125 SHA-256: a085b184a37f0929d1498cab95265f1313bddb5a9ebe01b10aed830f50db273c
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to ttraff.ru. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF link farm heuristic, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute content widely. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL as the malicious redirector. The presence of a 'Password-protected archive lure' heuristic indicates that this PDF might be a precursor to delivering a password-protected malicious archive.

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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/pify?keyword=divinity+original+sin+walkthrough+guide
    • http://sudar.a2consultation.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874359/wijibojaluwugi.pdf
    • http://files.htsi-al.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131410545/4127712.pdf
    • http://files.fitzgroup.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856956/5484809.pdf
    • http://files.mastergardenerscabarrus.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871852/932e8.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5045/0600/files/free_trade_definition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/vakijuxek.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3713/0914/files/45830770928.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0595/9574/files/joxividagokuvuvibop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1452/0995/files/file_writer_java.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7509/2132/files/dusetoxagiboz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0457/6690/1924/files/translate_japanese_app_android.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0423/0805/files/clicker_heroes_idle_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2552/3103/files/canara_bank_internet_banking_form.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6888/3098/files/favebililojani.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/lalosukiwafigoledexefes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5330/0377/files/62089990834.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4434/6792/files/60178615164.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_off00009a35.bin
59642fe7f08bb9d61a2b940f04cda18030e084fd4b1b12a116d1a02ecfd5d03a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9A35 5404 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000aca5.bin
e78b0120fe50beef1c25518760fb39f8d27eab1fd594e320e39568d06c5ef913
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xACA5 10256 bytes