Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b59bc001577e816e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.3 KB Created: 2020-09-02 09:18:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 648e6f25fc45a7ee9ae524ef47c77e8e SHA-1: b3743698d4054b73ce9c519c5cc0466d8532cc75 SHA-256: b59bc001577e816e547dd8fb587b527df5855ffe3fb0fc0b87ea4147be76386b
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.me/wix?keyword=the+interlopers+short+story+answers'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded links to external PDFs. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains the same redirector URL. This suggests the primary intent is to redirect the user to a malicious site.

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=the+interlopers+short+story+answers
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c4b402_d7c99fa5e8c344bda8647e9e0d4d974f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0f1814_deae40244a144479a6ab8f9fa409fce8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b98abb_7655abff507940b8baa9eab89fb611b8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e1c37d_19120cc6a51549c7b801698e0a816c9d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/22bf55_18d7386ae22c4c88b324608b5a5e34c6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/628a76_5d08847f21ac4a94b9c897c237823b2c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_55ccc61bb7a942039f0ba64841579924.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2c608b_972c936416784066923e25e995a95486.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fbccce_646e5b7f73ea4bac8d70833b61ec1aa6.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9465/3595/files/area_of_2d_shapes_formulas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2122/2567/files/taxonomia_de_bivalvos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9523/5490/files/fillable_invoice_template_word.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8651/9203/files/20040460991.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2534/9273/files/nunerejunejasuva.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007635.bin
5e23521d543d01f7957d73014dcc5a3dc12593e9f9ab81e897aec21cb81f055a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7635 3100 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008148.bin
64ebc41165e87620005d676f1f671401636ca2802de724203d6499cd2760646e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8148 4840 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000091b2.bin
3072281c4e5828fec3fb27d81730015ba9709d5ad16576a24ef419ba5a88eba8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x91B2 13860 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0000bd44.bin
1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBD44 4324 bytes