Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 225f16ad3d118380…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.4 KB Created: 2020-08-04 08:55:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 811b5df8ccf71c902ebd66b8cc9f40a9 SHA-1: 30d2c21c06a10c460dfa2fcc3b7e16052d7aab3e SHA-256: 225f16ad3d1183808915f42069a4665a92ee6ca68773e74a7e81fb77554977df
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=binary+tree+in+c+pdf'. This URL is presented within the document body, disguised as a search result. The file also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many of which are benign Shopify links, likely intended to improve search engine ranking for the malicious redirector. The 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' heuristic suggests a pretext for the user to interact with the document, likely by clicking the malicious link.

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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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=binary+tree+in+c+pdf
    • http://files.thomsondentallaboratory.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775528/maremofisuwagol.pdf
    • http://binoto.truelighthealingcenter.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775612/571843.pdf
    • http://files.uniquecelebrationspartiesandgifts.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379312/redafomudabuj.pdf
    • http://files.davidleakeesq.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681670/zurifif-besusuxuravix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7379/7285/files/43390759225.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9889/8592/files/39955642689.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4115/3439/files/best_reader_windows_7_ultimate.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7060/3932/files/62099473200.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7715/7542/files/falajunelemulogomid.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4637/7374/files/77025314381.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6574/5312/files/79902087890.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6954/6395/files/62467334291.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4323/2661/files/4675773907.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4796/0232/files/init_git_repository.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9809/5262/files/96388850950.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9703/0805/files/debigemifiragu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4112/0679/files/34457051096.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_off0000787a.bin
f25bec1984f81b40db48e77a72b04c437b12fed56766fea597d93438b0cd806d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x787A 5088 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000089e7.bin
87416b9fb2b3267c450c1e23e961ec9d55c18703b5216dfa8ff840f83591c81e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x89E7 11328 bytes