Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b0713f3fb9a17242…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.0 KB Created: 2020-08-31 19:48:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4d85c840fb7d0a10415943bdb568e0c2 SHA-1: 8caf8d99e6d967191c089438dfb2fd6abfc1733f SHA-256: b0713f3fb9a17242d68c95c3dd868a497ac04e672c1cb1cd4f18cc8ea54b58c6
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The embedded URL, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=operating+budget+definition+pdf', is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this URL, reinforcing the malicious intent. The file also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous external PDF links, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute further 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/pify?keyword=operating+budget+definition+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a44510_4ec90fa546c44afeb8b5c3572f2a7a88.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/80bfa9_793e6433edeb4c2f916504778ed64b5f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b11f6d_7093b697d71d4766ae164d5ed122fc73.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_19ee4eedaeb04954a20a3e07c9d8c732.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_de375d03be5b4531aae2a3e01fc7263c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6d59ab_08a1502b42b048719eea856991ab4b5f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6c032c_12bed4672427416c84165dfde7f3e536.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d7abb618046a4f458bb58e871afd2125.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a2d007_a6c3e92e58194767b4a0d01d0691a152.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_96ea950b4b9c49b88412f97053ec8fae.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e3325f_3444332dc119481f8209185a62386002.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/dd4472_22db143f15ad400885f8bb2828d3639c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f84671_d0456467e5c24227afdf7201a408972a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3e5d97_4e97de3dd44d48cd842309fa42323171.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e33828_0eb21b1ffc3f4b2792e5cf0f24376249.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b4f0c6_58283207f7d2472c9b10554e08e1692d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/913720_e235600013c844d8962bec323a96bbce.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/
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/dd4472_22db14

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006605.bin
6a89a8cce39b1e639bd739621a55e58e6383933e3544521854632fc119fabc18
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6605 5164 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000779b.bin
6dcef73e6f79a645065d3560cccf8463998cfd2c22a5053596d0fe7a88fb0cd9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x779B 10300 bytes