Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f8e15081fefa79c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.1 KB Created: 2020-08-23 11:07:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: cbb79cd4db13024bef0154e9c5fac880 SHA-1: 0a94b547b73e87a17e913e95a881425ffb1dd3a7 SHA-256: 1f8e15081fefa79cdf12aab19eea2af3e868e72e33da181dc9adaad968a7215d
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with many links pointing to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, and a critical link to a known malicious redirector. The document body contains a call-to-action phrase and the primary malicious URL, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=bartender+template+example', which is likely used to redirect the user to a malicious payload. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=bartender+template+example
    • http://files.ramseycountyfair.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775678/rolunogikuwosum.pdf
    • http://gobulo.ywcahealthandfitness.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681481/d3d4075199.pdf
    • http://jemib.juliewilder.net/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303238/sajuxuligorozop-doxugorab.pdf
    • http://dijaj.alexandrakwilson.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775583/9739368.pdf
    • http://files.briarshetlands.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969403/webowosipuman.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0173/0456/files/97029060170.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2816/0418/files/88614960543.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8606/7352/files/builders_warehouse_catalogue_2020_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2448/1431/files/62720583610.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3592/6434/files/java_backend_tutorial.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2961/1171/files/juvulojozopiwefugaxukub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7451/9194/files/19201205755.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9382/6463/files/papudawodesofu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5272/8474/files/castrol_magnatec_professional_e_5w_20.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_off00006eef.bin
a75885e6eacf707f6de7c693e68f5596b8423e30d92c0aaa6105af9bd62d34c0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6EEF 5044 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007fff.bin
bf38a362f38bc31b1c23c01a0f454a8a674329c50c15dbecb98c099d2c5b4012
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7FFF 10636 bytes