Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cdb4ce1994703b42…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.5 KB Created: 2020-08-30 18:14:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9555fa5d2fcb6964a5ce47dd69ef253c SHA-1: 2854e9e0189b6ae4af5c361f3d6459064cbf3708 SHA-256: cdb4ce1994703b4284e7fd7070796013489df82b4346c975efb1d8bb0c2ae730
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1200 Hardware Add-in T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a link farm, with the primary link directing to a known malicious redirector. The document body is heavily obfuscated, but the presence of the malicious redirector URL and the link farm heuristics strongly suggest a phishing or malware distribution attempt. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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.club/wix?keyword=tornado+snare+drum+solo+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/63d3ad_ed0336ceaef74a5fa314cae69915c82e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6f19988edcee4f85a9c29f7c89c210ff.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c600590d24314c688e96f21fb110b748.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2e11ff3e91fc41cd85f632d0b3ccf2ae.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a8679ef925f6435684dc6b9c5758c7d9.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2602/2554/files/torujopotimaniwuj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6991/4790/files/breezily_bridge_mod_1._8._9.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7054/6329/files/visual_studio_redistributable.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0923/6374/files/jonenasag.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/1206/7228/files/potica_aristteles_portugues.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0029/9683/files/wimugojuda.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0972/6874/files/stephen_k_hayes_quest_center_dayton.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_778fabad083c45bcac7329df819bf7d4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/374ce0_c0bd45a4a55d459c966193d0e49eed04.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9cc572_1acfa801d470404f9964328b601be3af.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/49be48_53f51325bb8642248c1a5081d5c45703.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006a7c.bin
e0e980c7bd976d06e4969a91ee9e305d9699068ea5ee66b9e3268b011f66054b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A7C 4888 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007af2.bin
6f56a6b151807a2f3a392e8a855863b4fa790cff9018631b9402d52e7a0cf295
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7AF2 10648 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009ee4.bin
d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9EE4 4324 bytes