Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 feee97a65afa6c2d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.4 KB Created: 2020-09-14 06:49:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 92cdc15c9eb0b284191f3e95e591c40d SHA-1: f1a1866947f76e9c9be1da33f003afa19f315f98 SHA-256: feee97a65afa6c2d505d690ed6ad4054b794ec433a9174c0eb6cd8afd90cabbb
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, 'ttraff.link', which is likely used to obscure the final destination of the malicious payload. The document body contains garbled text, suggesting it's not intended for direct user consumption but rather as a vessel for these links. The presence of many external PDF links further supports the attack pattern of SEO manipulation or hosting malicious content.

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.link/wix?keyword=python+module+2+test+answers
    • http://files.olympiamarines.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874495/dc1a4.pdf
    • http://files.borninswedenblog.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384442/5791962.pdf
    • http://dewevole.thewrightfamilylincolnshire.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302936/vetat.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6d45f6_32c13a7472ab4908bf07e15f6371ada0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/03f576_bd8a18d6b60f4524b5ce0019eb0f157b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2d1648_22eb7e1dfa1d454180667a0cf267cccf.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/72ed28_771c6dda4ef144b0b5396fac53a4394d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_596eac91c3754e41a552bd17dde78c53.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a76634_4b7f40fbf2504c40b47672434f86bc67.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/078c79_e00c497406cd4287bf05e3f27ff26068.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/120f26_57e0a081a135418cbfaaca36e36e9510.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_70aacd58c37a44dcb7a9985d0aba8afe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6842/3334/files/php_explode_function.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/6242/7547/files/mulidoju.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/1020/3304/files/zisiraxetosivitedin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2718/5309/files/daily_routine_esl_worksheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4571/6129/files/tadivokedarojemaxi.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_off00005192.bin
ba1f947959c8a00ce2c68f543d21d5d6268835b18a8377758ad5d01883c8d1b0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5192 5392 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000063cf.bin
05bd0e7aef034c73e8fca13b603f1518a9cd20f773f5236ee02bcc1d6ec8ca45
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63CF 9752 bytes