Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f88035475072fad1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.8 KB Created: 2020-08-31 12:57:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9083c58742be65ea6ec1b43770e2a3dd SHA-1: 7ebbf5cb7db65d1d1127474a998af7e9ca226776 SHA-256: f88035475072fad1d064f6ea9ada084667d1f03c5c7a36f94c56e997b0ff1119
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=control+systems+engineering+7th+edit'. Another critical heuristic indicates a PDF link farm, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to technical documents and URLs, reinforcing the lure. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=control+systems+engineering+7th+edit
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1157/8776/files/44478938708.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0162/4214/files/tiradexukisu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7325/7118/files/matlab_for_engineers_4th_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5567/7591/files/36282246297.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/3675/4329/files/51913894451.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2873/2314/files/91848617387.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1575/6182/files/ei_reporting_online_call.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0453/2715/5355/files/pizonexew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8555/2030/files/sufujigazifavunijo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9227/9445/files/8169827607.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_934e2118687c44ffa2d7841d581f7731.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/76de1a_d6788eecd0c342819389c54cfe7b50f3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d5415a_795e802b8dee4696bc58a309b6753c78.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1902b7e3d2804492a3faf56f5da7441f.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/
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_934e2118687c44ffa2d7841

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000065f3.bin
8ac0704dc59d14534d22534ec17e5b5fa004203f3bb05075f5bf7fc10d3e325b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65F3 5020 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000076e5.bin
a8eadc1d3a6cf4916f06ed18e606b384307ed873f3fb550dbd0c2d7bbe7320ce
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x76E5 15340 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000a5e5.bin
b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA5E5 4324 bytes