Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7ce5e9041738f39…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.4 KB Created: 2020-08-14 02:18:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7139d4e2b50f6a13b23aaa9596649071 SHA-1: dd967c6cbb33f707a9e5e01f142f57d85303192e SHA-256: a7ce5e9041738f39e89fae497d3f5e57d3b5c472157853cdd27fceb5e3e89950
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to domains associated with link farms and redirectors. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.com/wb?keyword=arbitrage%20pricing%20theory%20model%20pdf, which is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the same URL and other PDF files hosted on various domains, suggesting a coordinated effort to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct payload execution.

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/wb?keyword=arbitrage%20pricing%20theory%20model%20pdf
    • http://lapuxevu.thisiskellymaryanski.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383483/110f7996ec3a692.pdf
    • http://files.tsmfarms.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814400/pukukedomujonanude.pdf
    • http://files.australianworkingadventures.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775953/c84e4c988.pdf
    • http://files.pureloops.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814070/891860.pdf
    • http://muxuteja.catholicapostolatecenter.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969754/6f4c4d7f9656.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8694/6212/files/campus_security_officer_training_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2341/8019/files/access_consciousness_clearing_statement.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1409/2960/files/simon_xt_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2009/9488/files/how_to_make_a_csgo_config.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6596/6754/files/zogug.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/9510/0311/files/agnieszka_szulim_piotr_woniak_starak.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0974/4789/files/60320118089.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6769/5509/files/82334851165.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7437/8138/files/56882914572.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2732/5343/files/daxedama.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7513/3859/files/repaweg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0443/1344/4508/files/camelia_jordana_moi_c_est.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4178/2950/files/52788483555.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_off000073a1.bin
1cca9e5b7b79f888cd2ce3cd199c8fa588cab4d6ade905526655d6be6e9c1c36
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73A1 5624 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008692.bin
5e04d71f2e27e667c7ebc2d2cccf4b279d40a7cf9e23030536592dd2c2e39be2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8692 10476 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000aa8e.bin
04ebd1ec2e2f4e9ea29623c22e87970a706a29fd30c00d7970aa3ef8a2a4479b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAA8E 16316 bytes