Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1a0b3c585f488a1e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

60.3 KB Created: 2020-08-01 17:52:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 85f4c766496b14eff2e4bf395cf04261 SHA-1: c1da6e3956ebc71868d3e6ec0f565158fd2abd3e SHA-256: 1a0b3c585f488a1e8fab911ea6f64ca69f4537bf1bbf785249970bf7d823fdb8
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.ru/pify?keyword=a+scanner+darkly+torrent'. Another critical heuristic indicates a link farm, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute content widely. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the aforementioned redirector URL, reinforcing the malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, but the presence of numerous links points to a delivery mechanism focused on user interaction with external resources.

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/pify?keyword=a+scanner+darkly+torrent
    • http://files.leedsbarber.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409508/d12b2.pdf
    • http://files.missmurdysmenagerie.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407977/8999811.pdf
    • http://files.mthschoirs.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776757/badebalusabujuxugodo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/wajumibuxup.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8837/9032/files/52617219475.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5650/4744/files/92329675099.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7977/7952/files/xisijezir.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5232/5272/files/8489230218.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1008/8342/files/case_tractor_manuals.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6917/6985/files/70008433166.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4942/6839/files/6576538791.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2953/6676/files/nebevusajoduwojotolex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9880/8224/files/60510407932.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4681/3346/files/71767731124.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4719/7594/files/45586048471.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00009e61.bin
502aa8ff9dd504b8cb3501c5acc006f737becb354ddf9793c8f5dc783567f904
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9E61 4828 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000aecc.bin
a1204ca460ae47f1c841da9a5e5406aca5b04cae2779f92cbea50f323f695208
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAECC 11452 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000d446.bin
ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD446 4324 bytes