Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6aac8dc6d324e10…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.1 KB Created: 2020-08-29 22:58:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7d6299b7a3bca5c1654ee5bf1943cff6 SHA-1: 34b76af0caea79374b7a99cbc0fcc471aa152bac SHA-256: a6aac8dc6d324e10446baa3b511b0ccc4965af729bbf50972ac12f7400efda13
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=course+outline+latex+template'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous external links. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic suggests a lure to entice users to click the malicious link. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains the primary malicious URL.

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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.cc/wix?keyword=course+outline+latex+template
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9541/5189/files/73166195091.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3782/6973/files/jojuvukufemilesilu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1966/4541/files/edit_text_in_acrobat_reader_dc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2f5f02556bc54717b8328048df782305.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0ad74317eeaf4f898687327d61875ccd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_fae9ca00ce134c25baf418245a62528c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1da48d54109c46d7999633c552ef3fab.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9cb6f4f93f3f483aa2a9a73aa8ca7ae9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a91374c4fc13401d9ace32705e5be1fb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_417c0ff001e2497caa8b57bf0fc4ca53.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_86dd7df1111f44f0943b8e13ec3c3482.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ab81987757864880b9211f26daa779da.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e4b728b8f34e4bc4b63c6ee87bb3e84a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_46201d8eba5c486faf7cc6226747510c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c6ac46_acd1831f7e16470286f52b7932d8a53f.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_off0000542b.bin
266aebecd1316d18e24b8d151b71b6257ea2a9c06451d6abaf756edf7fc9d49c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x542B 4940 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000064e2.bin
fbfc0361a1d604e4038b62761ab2c400220ef9efa378f4f19adde5132e581817
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64E2 10140 bytes