Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a28bcdc39d0a39af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.9 KB Created: 2020-08-30 20:00:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4174e3fbf00754d1af01ba2e264312ae SHA-1: a4dc44b656ab7e4583b9e29bf08e742a84b07315 SHA-256: a28bcdc39d0a39af802651e1097dd357c66c1e3c19680373c7f5aafb0fe1242e
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, with one heuristic specifically flagging it as a 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM'. The primary malicious link identified points to 'ttraff.com', a known redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the book 'Netter atlas of human anatomy 5th ed' and the authoring tool 'wkhtmltopdf', suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious link farm. The presence of numerous links, including the one to 'ttraff.com', indicates an attempt to lead users to potentially harmful content.

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=netter+atlas+of+human+anatomy+5th+ed
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9744/6818/files/subway_surfers_new_york_city.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/befuxaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1602/8309/files/landless_game_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8506/9478/files/zeled.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2887/3367/files/cbse_class_12_chemistry_question_paper_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6808/7717/files/wodogalizesat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3485/9930/files/bel_ami_guy_de_maupassant_francais.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5883/2294/files/21139557652.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3480/3352/files/xizopowiv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/98629167596.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9513/7187/files/sigojopezagipulixosapesab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0465/2915/1126/files/56259427607.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6410/5886/files/tubozegekunewubun.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4369/1413/files/86277161248.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3979/1003/files/lududesi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1814/9285/files/zadezatesatopokuxele.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_off00006374.bin
0c861811e441bbabcaaea088db78de0680e5bacbc7ad765117bf6a31493745c6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6374 5344 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000758a.bin
f1e0117026be2ceced3fe8a6b66d2528e2d1a52908795bca949ce956e79234ec
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x758A 9640 bytes