Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a97ec5eea9316333…

MALICIOUS

PDF

62.7 KB Created: 2020-09-02 15:01:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 63f1e7d404eafbe0a6d7dd3a4b59c554 SHA-1: b0e8ab60a8e760dd69c4bcfd475c76c6af340757 SHA-256: a97ec5eea9316333d34cede8d3ccdb478e48afce9b90a383e72af60d5cacb172
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results. One of the primary links directs to a known malicious redirector, 'ttraff.me', which likely serves as a lure for malicious content or further exploitation. The document body, though heavily corrupted, contains fragments of the target URL and references to 'wkhtmltopdf', suggesting it was generated programmatically.

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.me/wix?keyword=photo+grid+collage+maker+mod+apk
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_72cc9411a6e04e4992ef968791678a7a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_af3fb698941c4120bcebc329ca68dcf0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3266973cf40d4bb08be5c98beabdb23c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e83933a8ccff41bcb65acf3b89c9b470.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/66c878_16f5e7a6e4f749fda121b197d5121f62.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9156/6493/files/28765397862.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/dobemajafapurotexujebo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1141/5962/files/ritetimaluke.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9720/1567/files/slang_and_sociability.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8292/2646/files/vector_banner_background_design_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1350/5185/files/motorola_surfboard_sb5101u.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0979/4463/files/77738771417.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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00008437.bin
b3260a8b27c40a1c9408c40b3dcfb9ec9ded560232013cbc1ca8de37ebb5a831
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8437 6588 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000094b1.bin
7a85bae22a530bf014afc6055946106e0c29a586815f91e532899b0915b267af
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x94B1 5376 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000a6c6.bin
924bd63be9c93f484ab90d0168a88a5bd39e5774c7d2f720c7d2063bbaffe558
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA6C6 6012 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0000bccc.bin
6b083e280368d6faf174a334f1bed3892f6fcfb0ff4be6837f4adcfe93bd1f7f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBCCC 10480 bytes
font_04_sfnt_off0000e0a1.bin
b2057a72422fbad866078cd0ce671fd972f551555d9f91c6ce62c9834d3f2135
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE0A1 2620 bytes