Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a15672fc9cd038ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.4 KB Created: 2020-08-31 14:21:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 6d051f11996ff8c8b701d32b4f413fbf SHA-1: f327b54c02adf043a908620d693d073c466cafaa SHA-256: a15672fc9cd038ed47f710db81d799a6ab890656e3f8e92c4c50cfb7bbadf78d
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link that redirects to a known malicious domain, ttraff.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting it is a template for an analysis report, likely intended to trick the user into clicking the malicious link. The PDF was generated using wkhtmltopdf, which can be abused to create malicious documents.

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/wix?keyword=analysis+report+template+powerpoint
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9b6b751c4290470db59cc9359cebf444.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c67ac548abd5477f94ec77f1fc2067fa.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bbe3e27c4de042d8b924d2f59be0f480.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b0045a5acf644ecd8e81c7dd61163492.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f96b02_e80f70a491ce40db914cc37aa0d6a6a8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8d57bd_966ad655ba3b41e5b23bed1f6aadd1e8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/191a6d_b3c2b8cfd93b4a78bbbbec6f45e73cab.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_28e03144634b43e495604f5e37795879.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fd7405_8ccec8f792424c6d9ae79d755b6405db.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_22369135569249eba7d94d423d4ad4c9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9421c8_fc432cc33d734a80b11ec38702e7329e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_675372247f784ff38b2dd8fe31a92deb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d2e163d0ad8f4ade89c02e5fa1497de2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/eb5a6a_e64775dac04248f7b9ca8d5cce9e8f13.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b2054b899cf84fc094ad39843c379632.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/eda9ba_05896e79fadb4fa3a8da7feb52b3dd08.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/756799_2b2f7b225df2459f8456a95041aa69ff.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_off0000688b.bin
aa48647c19243ac1ecd800bd5447fbfb4344d16e9f48294d1a2483ff77d82f6f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x688B 5148 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007a0f.bin
bea83568b39616b3eb25586eaf88c66f5954c967f919c3520cdc8de6a16af621
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A0F 10028 bytes