Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9ddea4d6ffa5418…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.6 KB Created: 2020-08-30 19:12:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 628fe82ee11c4c1792b7bca3dc03a152 SHA-1: 544057094b27db83f618a3635479b7f0acdb6cec SHA-256: f9ddea4d6ffa5418892d6d58e3f884b31ecd02476363b22caf1ef7280979a2ba
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a PDF link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The primary URL identified is 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=process+control+modeling+design+and+simulation', which is flagged as malicious. Additionally, a large number of external PDF links were found, suggesting a link farm or a method to distribute further malicious content. The document body contains garbled text and the authoring application is wkhtmltopdf, indicating it was likely generated programmatically.

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=process+control+modeling+design+and+simulation
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_88218eff24bf439d88857ad7bd5bbd51.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_42cfe813c8aa43a491e4daaee181965e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b91566_61e098bd74d6474699d34f2c71a3adc3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0dd040_e086c0abf83f488db7d07ee504fc029f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a7980357f7b346768abc43f292b356c5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3654629aa2064e9a974cda5dc80845c2.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7897/4629/files/kerbal_space_program_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9827/4978/files/fundamentals_of_computer_networking_and_internetworking.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3858/8584/files/pogewimedanobuxidufefimu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5209/0022/files/gikorijevapig.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1089/1682/files/rurumuripiv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1141/5962/files/32143498848.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6596/6754/files/pifawaxaralifugidutom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6410/5886/files/xanadowebow.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8548/8543/files/53531799646.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_off00007019.bin
268e614ac2e07a4dd3c67a9dac9f7bea455970591606fa6ed5cb6863b6f916ba
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7019 5260 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000081d3.bin
a91a93244c6c407e1360e83d1742d0d22f4683b08a41b3c9bbcc359d9adf217f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x81D3 10532 bytes