Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd4e7593df61a860…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.8 KB Created: 2020-09-02 01:39:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: fdac7718ae1f59f74a57201282fd6379 SHA-1: e53f7f95d3b160cde8543e4b89a3edb281defbd0 SHA-256: fd4e7593df61a860ede149fa3b00dbd909f4e9d230c52e68afca040c432cc399
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'ttraff.com', which is associated with malicious activity. The document body and heuristics also indicate a lure related to password protection for PDFs, a common social engineering tactic. The presence of numerous external links, including a link farm, suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute further malicious content. The sample also indicates a password-protected archive lure, suggesting a multi-stage attack.

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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=password+protect+pdf+adobe+acrobat+reader+dc
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6846fe_17e5dfecf6aa4bc98adf2f2d53c6100c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1be480_c3fc43cca806487e9b9dfb791707aaa1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7ad786902dad40529b6f5a4242697e70.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/de65f7_2471cfaa1c6d465d876b3f9fc3b9b9bb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/451a43_25476666df8f4f228253e73a33becf8f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9cb927_d5c237252f5d4c6dbb85014805d16b1f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9fc8c3_f7efebddda6746b3ae5167bb626bcabd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/99965f_f9524f753b8247b2b251a1ebf21c87eb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ee9d3f_c17b9002491049cf8dddcd4fa6078377.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4f270c_9f2e7a6aa4c64ee19f3bb10009ac1fb9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9f64b48ba92745fcb58da6a16f35c53d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_8277e1711f864ea2bf9e8915656ae08f.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9610/5375/files/92968055854.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9443/2161/files/gamiran.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_off00006a1b.bin
5701beee31522f9b8bc36787cfe483132a853ad3567f6cf20fabd2e074db4449
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A1B 5348 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007c64.bin
8acdb14cf5a01293543a88a057e1210922970c9334d6f26e6ba945d28cba3756
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C64 9816 bytes