Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab07cc06e2d58ef4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

61.0 KB Created: 2020-08-30 03:57:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 743f4c538ef9296aa91d2f5ad45c0181 SHA-1: 55f95e5d96793a4b24ffd872face5318f758cee6 SHA-256: ab07cc06e2d58ef4b749639ebee83dd7c3a9065622e07c69c654bdd51b16fa5e
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a redirector URL associated with malicious activity. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text that appears to be a lure related to a game guide, likely intended to trick users into clicking the malicious link. The presence of multiple links to external PDFs, some of which are hosted on a domain that also hosts the redirector, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute malicious content.

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=swtor+trooper+commando+guide
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ad37d18e48d04815978a389c64099cca.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_47f5420f74184a3c85cd056ff1a50109.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f7faf0c4d8464fb0b9004b021cb2f28d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e32925c4c4944104ad021826a9565fad.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cc089a_91a77e1a493640e79fd7d4b8a7123571.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_21746769b7df4ad4b972569c2d0c0613.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_32307e46f22b4d13a12dade640d34f83.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_019bf0379c7b4e1faca1db5e2cfd3c5d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f1780b_c707b779213246f0b8356c3bbff89977.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/33a16d_1152fb82ef214a3399df947c1db61d4f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_35091a7f37a04ff18d7484c9c21b2d78.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e1d12c_98749167ecc943d983000e57153fd7e6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c1de29_33d2a2da97ed4c93bb5c24b0782baba4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/76de1a_aea388df0a5043f6adafbc718168526d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3826db_712ab4a7550643c295d448e079fca756.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f09a9d_345a791cb45044e6ab3f90e66b5d2ace.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_off0000ab11.bin
34f9175572b8a53096c6e737468908fa2bb259a4953ccc098391da1effba512e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAB11 5380 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000bd4f.bin
cb96ca418bab91c38154bb7eb7bd368b05a063ca89639277d0968abd1ae7bd69
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD4F 13156 bytes