Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f23fb2bc91bcd894…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.8 KB Created: 2020-09-01 20:49:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 89292e47297cbd0b48dc249e9e79a6d0 SHA-1: d575686edf298184285f78cac6b4fb35973e185b SHA-256: f23fb2bc91bcd8943d611a558c702723cf07e12f9908ba1a8d5f0aef5aa53fa6
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious due to the presence of numerous embedded links, a technique often used in SEO link farms to artificially boost search engine rankings or distribute malicious content. One of the embedded URLs, 'https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=bayes+information+criterion%2528+bic%2529', is flagged as a known malicious redirector. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be generated by wkhtmltopdf, suggesting it's not intended for direct user consumption but rather as a vehicle for the malicious links.

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=bayes+information+criterion%2528+bic%2529
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/98e298_6f1d94385a7c4f7193ae7e169686a397.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/05900a_d7e2ea1b565043498db8d0fbf6d7d204.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9e41f0_4d34cdccab0342198cc864b5c46196cb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/dd6616_4c097e00ea5c4efa868bd9ae06ed87ea.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/696b8a_a149a41a892d45b5a8b3ff53de1cea5e.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7456/7843/files/intel_r_ich9m_lpc_interface_control.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8795/3053/files/julobowosefapuvebemo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7754/9726/files/rurotafedetorizodej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3293/6605/files/wovoxijeleguvot.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6893/9672/files/east_vs_west_names.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2566/0066/files/62530511066.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6788/2134/files/nolivogidukagag.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d94ae5_62a2de5f9a6f4c098c354d56802551e1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ce77c6_6dd7bb0d5303408f8bb924329d4331fd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_dde70369469c45649912935e0d5e8786.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ab922d_6696a694f15147f29c1d8d728a36e995.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_off00006dc6.bin
134dade10209d24115870e38d9457d4fdfa3eade4eef3200b3acff1e3eb7c0ac
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6DC6 5440 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000804f.bin
245c651c9b2d59ec5d907fe88f9bb8c1c9203c53d8f3a4d24456629703091e0f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x804F 15216 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000b058.bin
53e5d393b851d720594948fbf7dd9078aedfde0ca88976963c05eeb4d0c0a486
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB058 16308 bytes