Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 209e307e57a85166…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.4 KB Created: 2020-08-22 09:51:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 457879c9fcc1e93bfd82294406d7d458 SHA-1: a6369a00a5c3f2cf3c208fa0271e6ec1969258df SHA-256: 209e307e57a8516691f94d4cd5d1aee5312cd607b2d596e4155581826965972a
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on cdn.shopify.com. One of the primary links directs to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=descriptive+statistics+in+excel+sheet', which is flagged as a malicious redirector. This suggests the document is designed to funnel users through a series of redirects to potentially malicious content, likely for SEO poisoning or phishing purposes.

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=descriptive+statistics+in+excel+sheet
    • http://files.oldhamcountypolice.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695200/videvifi.pdf
    • http://gamob.david-heath.info/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407406/vezifol.pdf
    • http://files.authenticatex.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453651/gimuwekatuj.pdf
    • http://ginejide.ncctraining.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775606/54b967.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8080/0674/files/hunter_tire_machine_parts.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5459/5224/files/14979955491.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2778/4095/files/lefivateripifiserawegin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5658/5114/files/panorobudazaxopisidubo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8806/0320/files/lizanuwex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2313/0009/files/kajofanikumopikoga.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9100/0472/files/a_thousand_years_chords.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0595/8565/files/18157805906.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_off00005ff6.bin
540308ac77d34562a1d97b4e36a9b61a72771b6b51f21597f8f779101914d72e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FF6 5148 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007178.bin
9a731d4aff78854fcb9d4a11768dae4d708572552c7f7de8a1b7cbbdceaee58d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7178 9944 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000093ab.bin
f6e0f4a25f18a144688c6b7f40519a5efc98c72643b9054f89526e396d9b459d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x93AB 16144 bytes