Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 faed43d4540a9087…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.4 KB Created: 2020-08-31 02:41:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 868791de05db48d16334210567c83132 SHA-1: 4049c3c63b557c19ef4c19a4f637a48295118fd0 SHA-256: faed43d4540a908724dbf2ed1402e8f29af75c1ee5512e38ae6949bda66dafa0
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1200 Hardware Add-in T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=samsung+rv511+specs'. This indicates an attempt to lure the user to a potentially harmful site. The document also contains a PDF link farm heuristic, suggesting a broader campaign to generate traffic or distribute content. The embedded document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and references to product specifications, 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=samsung+rv511+specs
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d78803_4d2d260c76c04e7c85ea1f206c2c15ce.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/aa14a9_7d313c7b0d754000bbae169480859084.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b98abb_b9e712d6125140d3b60e8dd0444a00af.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5926b4_67dfcd4a881a477bbdd1e037b7ffef61.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/764aaa_87a0e60b760a4a1e9926aad4ff8d4855.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_33addcbd8a7c4947b9607219c9691ddd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c3f88d_b9e32f91849648f1be62664177b9110b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/764aaa_ea75ba0a76b8412cbc19ed9f03396802.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d902bb_cbfd2c22d7ce47e0813a8bcf7c94d784.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1a89c8_caae1477e16e44e88451af5a31d952c7.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/kivamusefelozadadazub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9575/1842/files/59024005311.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4648/5672/files/getokalazuluvux.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_87cbba97ed3043f890761bdf6991f9dd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/067ecb_0d5f2579bec64ec39595378bc213e422.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/227d0f_1e65a9792e084ce792c4db491b7bfa27.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a69c188e6dac4e05bb7d09d2ebeec3c7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8b2c09_7be04254913d49cba59ce3e12df0e9d6.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_off00006661.bin
4801e79d512ce2ec4187ff513b80f4bca4fdac070170c0552ef279cdd601eb4b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6661 5560 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000793b.bin
9c5274540bb296ff4b9ad986f1791f343579ca4c509445b8f5e3614572d75abc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x793B 10352 bytes