Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b5f27213091b2947…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.3 KB Created: 2020-09-01 10:04:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9525301bbf7c65d94a1d88afc780f2b4 SHA-1: f8058867f3cd15f718dd7af266ede203ea37d2f0 SHA-256: b5f27213091b2947924f6734a3e9834be3317ca89491b69bab0cdd1710b941f6
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=weekly+check+off+list+template'. This URL is presented within the document body, disguised as a 'weekly check off list template', to entice users to click it. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded links to external PDFs, suggesting a broader campaign to distribute malicious content or manipulate search engine results. No scripts were extracted, and the document body itself is heavily obfuscated, but the primary malicious intent appears to be redirection 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.com/wix?keyword=weekly+check+off+list+template
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fbccce_5ff731e62d464102b9b4bf2b87036d58.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1df9ea_668f9f920aa2449cb5a60604e23a98a9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/96bf9d_6189790cfb9a404bba80d04e7c9c909f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3d6b61e60e3f448f8a4c378df59dd932.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2ca22b_34bb08c04a5c4697a9d114dd679460c8.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ca300b_71132e15675c4d928e7d288abe70b005.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5704/5913/files/6058384009.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0261/8278/files/repiboravigokejateroni.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2090/9735/files/89843598545.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1653/4685/files/anaganaganaga_song_naa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6313/9733/files/cambridge_soundworks_i765_manual.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0a0016_6dc675d9c6c2428eae4578db200c9ea6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ee4a13_cb01b7ef563f4f368b5aa6f5da972643.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_905ba10ac67c468cbc64db95c1d6ab47.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c83fdb_37f2dfb82fd84c7f8e47de18fa6e7dea.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_off00006c5f.bin
263e1330c577369e81e34ec31099ed2a11f80d15242b762a26e331fea32d0d0e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C5F 5340 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007e81.bin
f632ef4e8e7ef9158c4cfc6aa627eb09a9eacd04868a157058070a74fd81775d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E81 9980 bytes