Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b46202ca6a01421c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.5 KB Created: 2020-08-14 23:04:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e42f6b138bd103f223e133ddfca8ca13 SHA-1: 7c3bacd8ff3382b7ac91812861b37b452ac9c208 SHA-256: b46202ca6a01421c85ae637eaee2f835ab91b46a8e6f9d45d2bf4734b8f254a2
162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/wb?keyword=part%20of%20your%20world%20satb%20pdf'. Additionally, a 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' heuristic indicates the document's content likely prompts the user to install a browser extension or update to view content. This combination suggests a social engineering attack aimed at tricking users into visiting malicious sites or downloading further malware. The PDF also contains a link farm, with many links pointing to shopify.com, likely for SEO manipulation or to host further payloads.

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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/wb?keyword=part%20of%20your%20world%20satb%20pdf
    • http://puxum.martienvanzuilen.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871699/fusetajezunozek.pdf
    • http://files.blinkchildrensartstudio.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815015/nijivanekixokog.pdf
    • http://files.myssample.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874377/7439575.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8424/3351/files/55325802652.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9842/1913/files/apuleius_cupid_and_psyche.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/96626323422.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8018/8058/files/asidosis_metabolik_adalah.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0898/9096/files/34842731451.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8421/8521/files/sudufurowonozipujup.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9105/8076/files/pathfinder_biophysics_and_molecular_biology.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5780/6488/files/nosql_database_types.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/parisibudipaxetiwori.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4395/3567/files/63786003623.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_off0000cbf2.bin
8110b25e502b504d56a7fb7c665478847b5eddca8d54dd3fe1053eb866d048d6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCBF2 5372 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000de57.bin
59d95b31e2409c44eb7140cf73ed193fc9b49cd00752e7c23da63f91a4e9d357
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDE57 10292 bytes