Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d45c673860a2b8c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.2 KB Created: 2020-08-30 19:04:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 8e608389b45bbda65b99ae49a8c5f151 SHA-1: 80372f410c2b989a89cb5b6f1c2e6aa84fc7221b SHA-256: d45c673860a2b8c9918f4f8235e169b19c9b9f972711248b077ad111b151c078
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=bujias+acdelco+para+aveo, which is flagged as a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to this URL and other PDF links, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to drive traffic to malicious sites. No scripts were extracted, and the family is unknown.

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=bujias+acdelco+para+aveo
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b54a9d3abc9d49a990bfec7a8d823e08.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4888ca9a04c847228ff20eebe8ea2965.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e261fc6a85604b87890c33fb52107b63.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cdb50c_47b21575ec9442a69b56ae97e3bc6d88.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5156146dd94d42c391dd8b185ecb2520.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3663/0422/files/performance_appraisal_essay_examples.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5735/6710/files/92767090787.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e0de796fada64556b4cb00baf59f5ec7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3eed2b_8b85195a42fb455b866f908d4ff30229.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f96b02_2d69695c912849e888ff2e94e53cf014.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/87a178_e913e34a15104be79e38264150768fcf.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/bae363_6bb3e7ed1d124f6c9d0f63116c7accc3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9e0c5453f31348fdb61f172ffe9d506e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5360f8_6bb1ae00ac144fe6b03bd15aa929e6cb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/24853a_8ca5316c5a184466ae60c54453fd7236.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_off000045c6.bin
d0fb12650c012ec2d8f75a9eb4fe72c25fab4c32c375832359e3709f16bc958e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x45C6 4948 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000056a6.bin
4db881c2e636a4e7155bba626b97f808a838527c21001c39dd1f989672aca1c4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x56A6 9132 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000075fa.bin
1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75FA 4324 bytes