Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de097fe588f1f66d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.7 KB Created: 2020-08-30 22:42:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 0e40262cb340ace10392b1c8b5e0ca12 SHA-1: 4f8d9e4b3f1d98492c55a8f8759c207e1aebcc00 SHA-256: de097fe588f1f66dc090e1cfb603a0ca672ad756c94874fc305da9dbdaff8636
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to ttraff.cc. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous external links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further suggests a social engineering lure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and appears to be a lure for 'Android emulator linux genymotion'.

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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.cc/wix?keyword=android+emulator+linux+genymotion
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2282/6142/files/sosadudiwomodowuxazekazok.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1945/8967/files/medical_tourism_report.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2429/3794/files/fireproof_study_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1098/2041/files/pibogazeledalug.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8a419d_18f465b4c8f04a2eb60c4d5e56813135.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_86d9ae27a821481aa156e7006b923e4a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f79c190ad9d0433e8b8e55e744a09a85.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_67a5ee8dde504dfd8d09119a4d987df7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ea2f88_03e2974954894e33b9c0b13656c5326d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d99d9feb1f144681b9db795ef12f9348.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_86bb724a6c4c4758951bdfc7cabb3def.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/6389/4173/files/2nd_puc_biology_question_paper_with_answer.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6232/0536/files/45323668678.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9112/4643/files/dekotavuxobegelawudut.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_off00007f13.bin
de5545fb1894ab9cc530a5672ab77ebc03a33445f15248c7ff40c9c12b63c566
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F13 5128 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009070.bin
c3ad4af432934e06eabf84ea375888b2d6455a3421feacfa49bcb73d3468d244
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9070 13044 bytes