Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2418160c75aac80f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.8 KB Created: 2020-08-29 19:06:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 70ca079847ca7b4d01e4d3fc475f0f7a SHA-1: 6cac9107aaded4ee41885106388e8d03c3b53304 SHA-256: 2418160c75aac80f4e65cc1b2cf98e1027f9cad4f216f4c389af198cf3783fff
120 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/wix?keyword=fluid+mechanics+2nd+edition+pdf'. This URL is presented within the document body, suggesting a social engineering lure to trick users into clicking it. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to Shopify domains, likely for SEO manipulation. No scripts were extracted, and the document body itself is heavily obfuscated, but the primary malicious intent appears to be redirecting the user to the identified malicious URL.

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/wix?keyword=fluid+mechanics+2nd+edition+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/21e6f2_af645b26e8ca4c9c802c667d2b971c0c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_82c0bf740d0c4bbcad856d7bcbf0050f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_86529403d23d4fd38e9b14018a7b77cd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f63b7dda1d4145da991c40674ec6acab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6690/8054/files/52116626128.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0460/2780/0735/files/68913665784.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2398/3015/files/android_assets_folder_file_system.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3282/8314/files/gilase.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8577/4491/files/historical_classification_of_bantu_languages.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5544/8213/files/vogixemumafudas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0587/8167/files/22056937530.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8174/1976/files/nusebe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7895/7718/files/92690332762.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5585/6281/files/grep_for_multiple_strings.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5671/7224/files/avesta_versiones_en_espaol.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_off000085be.bin
5f51164850e36646b2ee2363f5a5f55014ad4d636230f0e2e6a63b5856081d8c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x85BE 5268 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000977b.bin
c3ad679579f8ac2b0719287f7d1e538ecac5347c998136ce54ab39582eda1c5e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x977B 10780 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000bbe7.bin
b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBBE7 4324 bytes