Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3ae9c0e65cf554c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.3 KB Created: 2020-08-29 08:59:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 8858f04a5a7734bd813b78d5e6946797 SHA-1: 208b8b6e3235b8205b1df26aa088d9f857cf4461 SHA-256: e3ae9c0e65cf554c3ae6758922eaede4c43e3b29318bc60483fd329e25a6a8f7
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link to a redirector URL, which is a common tactic for distributing malware. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Minecraft 1.7 2 download pc', suggesting a lure to trick users into downloading unwanted software. The presence of a link farm further indicates a malicious intent to drive traffic to potentially harmful sites.

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.ru/wix?keyword=minecraft+1.7+2+download+pc
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_755a425186c147e590f737f9fd439564.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d50a6f3fbc174090b007423b66107f7a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_83f05633342643548e1a060c9763ae51.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_fbc3e5146f5d47b9bd1c8682daaed1fc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ab202aaed20f4bf793919a3be029d67d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_db13691e58fc4a4fb4efa410dd18d310.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_016a29e3e94a40f4b5984c3d50536dca.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_290324ef6a014476a21a3c596d73df96.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9f57a5ba806046d4a72a8a2e41809605.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_99b8d2701dec48bc942afa41628ccfdb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b85ed15068ba4997ba7323f1e4302bd5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b7bd71d33bf44ce9a13624c588a20dac.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0efcf8b76a0b4bc1b1ea0bbb4eac5d02.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bc08f15142aa476e932659dbf9068f2d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e73cbc9069574a5cb3c12ae37aa79913.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7ebabf572332487ba4a4f7712ca3cfcc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_03ed07f8648546b8beab0db661fe8c1b.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_off000065c7.bin
9b99b4547b5852068db00f20c7742abe4efffc267c0226a36dffe090de22bbc6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65C7 5364 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000783c.bin
2fd0b371a6aadec437a69a7ce761dc6b7764671acc998c49f4c9d35204220b02
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x783C 10560 bytes