Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cbb8eda913fc66af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.8 KB Created: 2020-09-08 09:11:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5442d90b3ba41364e055c751f7d417bb SHA-1: de11fd6795da4c6361d759a0507e28600a779bf4 SHA-256: cbb8eda913fc66af8c085112a4e99633cdc097b9ca0e2a921f4184ed816f69f3
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, with at least one pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that matches the malicious redirector. This suggests the primary attack pattern is to lure users into clicking malicious links, likely for phishing or to download further malware. The presence of a link farm further supports this, aiming to obscure the final malicious destination.

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=azur+lane+formidable+wallpaper
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e8506d_a8156e754f4f4b1687e38554a5d06649.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8b4172_a376773521bb4134a1404ed3835ff414.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/bb3bf9_bcbdbabece0a45e792bc09c42d9354d5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1715bf_0a3876be00384093a8dcc78522b5799e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d5cf39_c13eca50134746a89707eeb08471df87.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3d0627_e783e353592142e08f609de4e655f958.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0033/8331/files/balefewixusovu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9197/4557/files/wallpaper_girl_love.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_309a309bfe6143808f7624433e6b85f0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9421c8_4064ccb6f82d4169a4c1f55a65008a69.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f65175_b1a251e7e1e64983b4bbe4432783eb8d.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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000d425.bin
21e87bb50f9092e2484af92d4f235c7f3e8394d613e91fa7d0ed6a9a634a65aa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD425 5084 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e558.bin
daad3f347a4f42f432ee9983e619a7c063e36761dba5934b469418034847e28e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE558 1800 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000ede6.bin
ee71b9104bb2b75f8e3a5a21ff70ef14060bfbc99762407b99005d322764b08b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xEDE6 10280 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0001113f.bin
5c37151e58b57006fec45205b953024960161fc126972448518f450544b1ac12
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1113F 16660 bytes
font_04_sfnt_off00012772.bin
05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12772 4324 bytes