Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 28baa5628a8caa84…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.2 KB Created: 2020-08-24 19:04:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 65241d84668f5acb2a5e852f3a21adab SHA-1: 559175405605e97e45b383a8a245df81f57345c9 SHA-256: 28baa5628a8caa84b6c2ee60bb2619be30a89cdb5ba36cba7b61116e6c7195b2
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=autotune+pc+software'. This URL is embedded within the document body, which also contains a large number of other links, many hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic. The primary intent appears to be directing users to the malicious redirector under the guise of providing 'autotune pc software'.

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=autotune+pc+software
    • http://vibatiju.rachelcookcopywriter.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409200/860360.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9925/1093/files/filuv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5351/3880/files/apache_poi_example.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1940/2405/files/titibamazi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1887/8104/files/nevegafupibop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3932/6365/files/kulijasakidag.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2724/9826/files/xosodusitapofujo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6808/7711/files/6384674487.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6714/5366/files/fuliviwi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8827/1777/files/battle_cats_gao.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5449/0012/files/angular_5_template_driven_forms_reset.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8568/5153/files/kadovilemakenaxasikod.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4883/6004/files/amsterdam_plano_turistico.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1117/7626/files/springheel_boots_gungeon.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_off00005f78.bin
8648039440ba65287c9ae8ee38b26847080741a6ccd9993e701c372a86e7dd86
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F78 5056 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000070ca.bin
34d4e14ea54e9442d93a04e35e27bf451acc7296a2c7ed18362e7624141051a3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70CA 10484 bytes