Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7e2cd34cc057ea6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

61.4 KB Created: 2020-08-30 19:44:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2f12ef3a33c9fa44eddd9c6fb4a0cc12 SHA-1: 9d4a67856b62610750ede67b8824e01ba05d681f SHA-256: a7e2cd34cc057ea6c43fd2b845f977592724431880e32c650d5ac5f77c53e4ec
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=2+turn+magnetic+loop+antenna'. It also exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous external links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic suggests a lure to trick the user into clicking the malicious link. No scripts were extracted, and the document body is heavily obfuscated, but the primary attack vector appears to be a phishing lure leading to a 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.com/wix?keyword=2+turn+magnetic+loop+antenna
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_35bd4818978648018c63073c3b3f41d4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_fd0ce4da3a354f04baf23d742bfe07a9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8ab72e_c6b7333efae8439fbd31d355a2f982ea.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3380/5471/files/kizulerakuxan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7215/0947/files/website_als_chrome.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/7737/7688/files/aciduria_mevalonica.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6745/7188/files/93627457957.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8976/5276/files/75828898018.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7971/9317/files/avatar_movie_telugu_lo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2371/9845/files/computer_awareness_book_for_bank_exams.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2768/5798/files/kegosodorusesogibelat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5594/6645/files/braun_4045_coffee_grinder_user_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0757/3149/files/putiwixot.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_off0000a812.bin
406c12e07d9f874180547967c938b92164037f2dcb3f4388743f142ae09d2819
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA812 5112 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000b953.bin
e5a1ca488bba369bf09f601847cb25cc93d2f964af829f425b43d4bc313494e7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB953 15420 bytes