Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea22460d7c365b5a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.6 KB Created: 2020-08-29 19:55:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 45d09f8296e0a9d386d3b948309e4ced SHA-1: e2abfaaf5d0acaea51893550c1656fb13c151007 SHA-256: ea22460d7c365b5acb7f803920832b99ebc6d4087c2403c558675a529a917e32
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link disguised as sheet music, which redirects to a known malicious URL. The PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic confirms this, and the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a large number of outbound links, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. The embedded URL in the document body, 'https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=river+flows+in+you+piano+sheet+music', is the primary indicator of malicious activity.

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.cc/wix?keyword=river+flows+in+you+piano+sheet+music
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/34ec99_dd532b7d535f4d8f9ded4487677a00b6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7b22fef83bf745aca48f8902c33a4e67.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ea2f88_8fb5ded1dacd4f5b9b89ddc0714ba93d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2221e226f0e647fa94630d322fa78eca.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/238140_b3ac2ae19ae940e495abce189cced4f4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6095cd605a4b43bca7bb6f59728d8c0f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_08ed413be969400a92c2f46126a9fcfb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_74ec6464101441d39c153b579341dc39.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_46b1b7ad7be048c687227b99183eaa88.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9a7196cefce24cf38278605054101d73.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f3b7e6ba1dcd4a3a8e9da07b81913988.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6290de_12bf9a3572a34f5bb0461b382c4f20b3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5d1585b03d2447ef80abc8ce87e08c31.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3ea1cc07560c4c4fbd925c91d3e81fea.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4e3537f3090f4edbaf929c0d4e6f02a9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b92030c7ddb24f22bdaf166238472d78.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/76156b_fd273a21d2ce429ba1361f77717ac623.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_24e161106c194280bc354221f0f6fc7c.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_off00005511.bin
9a55c621c98bcae160ec67d43bf695d53fdcf514fe93abe11e90eea1241e37c6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5511 5516 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000067c5.bin
2b83d1770b73720ae6a87f57331649cdb8a178245b59c9f96bb53c58867f3702
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67C5 13736 bytes