Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a8d9cfb2ecc41aff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.9 KB Created: 2020-08-29 12:31:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 62df7fb57a7f0e4ee1f7650cc0230036 SHA-1: 903b9ab335551c988975c15c2b777f1a346b6cf4 SHA-256: a8d9cfb2ecc41aff3999223e8c78f2b39982ffc8a551dccfe571e3f4d9605c68
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=kant+projet+de+paix+perp%25C3%25A9tuelle+pdf'. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to lure the user to a malicious site. The document also contains a large number of external PDF links, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=kant+projet+de+paix+perp%25C3%25A9tuelle+pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9110/7752/files/jubevekuwobarosu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2182/0313/files/narutukagavokuxefelutoze.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3706/3328/files/minecraft_unable_to_locate_java_runtime.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8521/7436/files/buxovolemijopabelowobe.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1cb9b79039134e5083039695e08bce25.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e1c8d50071d948eb9fd9ccfb184bf6f0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_302454ce0cdf42f5b196069a7f5d608f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_344417b15c694c8ab78c02c761c291cb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4b275d0182ff472c811bce17d615d1f1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_dd288127f1524a33b729b35cc208c56c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_50fe117e663543b1a93ec9e9748e6e84.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7635e6b6ccf54de48dbbe95742ce41b4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_393b48250420496b82fa40d1fa76aa5e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_74f21d00731b473b8431acdffae823f7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_42f48f3749bd4b23a784bc403d0db627.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1bc86fc5fac14d61b37474c2b72f5a14.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bad241b0cdc3419dbea3c19792b86413.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d49e4a47378b436685826705a1efd353.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_off00006c88.bin
20b5a7bb26b8aa53c8c2aa9be489e2719bec13367b68d0fee65bb438b0bea784
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C88 5112 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007dc6.bin
ee1b6cf5f860034387d6d0f5286974d785e84eab20d3a3ca6e114422f4785f19
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7DC6 12076 bytes