Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd6d6b2b85f49025…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.0 KB Created: 2020-09-02 22:11:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 267b5edb106fd71d2511844f2f2f0450 SHA-1: f1f2c14b0c4d5e7a1e446d50afb75f1698acd140 SHA-256: bd6d6b2b85f490256ee60ca8c7475ff34e70fc504cb86ed0fe6db0942d4ed8f1
162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 User Execution: Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains numerous links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body text, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=video+er+for+facebook+apk+no+ads', which is associated with malicious redirector infrastructure. The heuristic 'SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE' indicates the document's intent is to trick the user into installing a malicious browser extension or update. The presence of a large number of external PDF links also suggests a link farm for SEO manipulation, potentially to drive traffic to malicious sites.

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.ru/wix?keyword=video+er+for+facebook+apk+no+ads
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0544/4259/files/40058555823.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5239/9773/files/11257065899.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1359/3499/files/nibumituzexokazefozemoxa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5443/8302/files/rilurowinurofopixapuze.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3749/1357/files/bijarolunulapu.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3c386b6eac7244b1864d68e86a4d93ad.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_24a2109d6d6a4ef2a82f3fb2642d547c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/bae363_2e9b5166a56e4de5aee0fda0c29917e0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3fbf20b3a4684a5ba762c53a39b1ad9c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fe83c3_efebb26ad5ba477587c8ead39f62fb67.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/804ff6_7ea2677f8ab94837953243c8f9688051.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ecec20_7c48b3c95f634ee6b6403b447fbb58c4.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7898/4614/files/98912549068.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7898/4614/files/bus_9110_orly.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3973/6487/files/lipamigizaz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7089/7824/files/rationale_zahlen_aufgaben_klasse_7.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_off00005f4d.bin
90d94c870241fe27290f230bbe9030f40e157eda6a92baaa467be2422dafae7f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F4D 5284 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007155.bin
74d400699bdde823ec27a3cc78d4fb6ee36d251b1abaf7bb2d7d009f5375efe3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7155 9920 bytes