Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 228af5a8ec0f4311…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.0 KB Created: 2020-08-10 05:29:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 6fdd6ed457474dba9f5b36eb562c9bba SHA-1: da62d671f92b1283e916e865068335d6efb9f3fe SHA-256: 228af5a8ec0f4311983d41dc94fb95328ebbaf430453893fc2b010854b178692
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious due to a critical heuristic firing for PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK, indicating it contains links to known malicious infrastructure. Additionally, the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic fired, suggesting a large number of embedded external links, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=o+que+%25C3%25A9+cultura+popular+editora+brasiliense+pdf, which is likely used for redirection to further malicious content. The document body contains garbled text and references to wkhtmltopdf, suggesting it may have been generated programmatically to host these links.

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=o+que+%25C3%25A9+cultura+popular+editora+brasiliense+pdf
    • http://files.seattlecarpetcareandrestoration.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739910/tawetiwitesivamakud.pdf
    • http://files.conservationoffineart.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453902/pubilemopiw-poluz-pebejidoxivipej-novad.pdf
    • http://files.milanfirst.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379085/4220724.pdf
    • http://files.spice-grind.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453354/sisiluxedifoboxuget.pdf
    • http://files.taketimeforyourselfmassage.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856567/0ce71ee.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6127/2983/files/77886554917.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3086/3259/files/pikilu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6240/1947/files/79416915788.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7525/5972/files/kitchen_furniture_design_catalogue.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4016/2467/files/88927148832.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1603/6249/files/wopajibekepudozafujiz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2259/7800/files/tutorial_beamer_latex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4243/0362/files/adding_and_subtracting_decimals_word_problems_worksheets_5th_grade.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1653/3654/files/mukatisotuno.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7226/6138/files/40725528556.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_off00005dd9.bin
8af041c93445e71c23e08c8daaf6410286fbc66e39f0fa0b7016ab64c6738b91
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5DD9 5584 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007095.bin
cc6e853e2d2a9a441ada17f8951324978715118912f58dc562ce9c8e1e2b5a54
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7095 11952 bytes