Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f0117485b2e86b40…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.4 KB Created: 2020-09-07 03:23:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9052f1931812cb7bb057b9bc46cc30ed SHA-1: 66c8293420453df9e1373583383e7527c3b9d5c7 SHA-256: f0117485b2e86b40dee70ea2bd1edecfd347bd16b97ea15fc076636c60312d7e
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, a common tactic for SEO poisoning and redirecting users to malicious sites. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.me/wix?keyword=gcse+chemistry+ionic+equations+worksheet'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting the primary intent is to lure the user to this external site. The file is generated by wkhtmltopdf, which can be abused to create malicious PDFs.

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.me/wix?keyword=gcse+chemistry+ionic+equations+worksheet
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/865d50_142add915971452e991cea6b5db56762.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/90c678_32fa999463084514a19995dd2faa5752.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e23fbb_e5fb230e07394693b6759b23e5593bda.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5ea4d5_634ddaf3afac440181c40d7e4186c544.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3bcfef_da744d7e4a844de284b8939b281061b0.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2412/0984/files/pozawolokofosejebegutivu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5167/9893/files/87716602967.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7814/7491/files/kefemijim.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7674/7413/files/ginotedugiboladibapafapa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9932/4580/files/dixufisowup.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/39843759369.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3887/4532/files/68278968032.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2819/9062/files/56211035616.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9757e7_3981f3462f4d40fea58d18fd8c3da7da.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6f58fb_b15e9b3ffaea4188908e54223530e985.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/53cfc7_860c25713afc4143be160312aaeec554.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1272f4950e444fbfa716bbce6ea31bf6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5ed537_3178b77121fa4b1d943580014bc2f913.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_off000050d2.bin
c5a6cf15194f21725efab1c35214fffcebde1ff277697ac56f4027d87a3d4610
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x50D2 5424 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006335.bin
772af3306b24e19e348523012fd5d08ab9d7cb96bbb06a1d47269f91fe3c272a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6335 9768 bytes