Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 adebea2ca914099b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.4 KB Created: 2020-08-13 22:59:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 666fb8384f2d26e1abf007138df4e309 SHA-1: f112c324e3e7758d5233a9aef2c8bb3bd9b4470b SHA-256: adebea2ca914099bd68405c3c7b21c9408712a2e232dc6b626d1e19372dd9eff
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.cc, which is disguised as an educational resource. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and references to 'improving vocabulary worksheets ks2'. The heuristic firings indicate the PDF is a malicious redirector and part of a link farm, likely designed to drive traffic to malicious sites. 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.cc/pify?keyword=improving+vocabulary+worksheets+ks2
    • http://files.geras.sk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739117/sadafagof-gewuba.pdf
    • http://zikeje.ssvtac.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/dorususegowetujuruwu.pdf
    • http://povinuzek.getitfitteddotcarpet.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739267/wosolarixu.pdf
    • http://files.phuvu.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740165/0b2d4fff30ed.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7945/0272/files/75864492614.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0896/6306/files/48185404978.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1818/2041/files/barnes_and_noble_job_application.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5007/4269/files/kujunakaxu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3419/8684/files/joworogiwozekima.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4909/0200/files/fangirl_by_rainbow_rowell.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0394/4853/files/german_accusative_verbs_list.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7931/9196/files/vinudafukarujibabokesunap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6019/8557/files/31313721574.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/gokibaleginasesomedusuj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6713/8470/files/metabolic_disorders_of_amino_acids.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6858/8194/files/89353814260.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_off00006963.bin
1afd2e950b91195808fd4a49feccd598103fe327c8fe64d9b139f2685f4be96d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6963 5756 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007cdf.bin
3a8b58b3abe3f223591bc92502e1edb230176b53f5121ba7a5f0f89c4a2c8fdc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CDF 14480 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000aa34.bin
ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAA34 4324 bytes