Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c10257157e3cc81…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.2 KB Created: 2020-08-24 17:50:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 8c12432a9978c1218a0cc9aa236155fc SHA-1: f16bc58df96a3d633da68fb33fe88bf654e3210b SHA-256: 2c10257157e3cc81b096e71d91427025be75a5f00669ed342940516dd01211c0
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to ttraff.ru. It also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains the text 'Travel planning calendar' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The presence of multiple PDF links and a redirector indicates an attempt to lead the user to a malicious site, likely for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

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=travel+planning+calendar
    • http://zumokulod.dvgshowstables.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776873/tovedofoxajab.pdf
    • http://files.backstageknitting.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383838/1ac2d3b2f4.pdf
    • http://files.fauxmesticgoddess.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856381/gevaxil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1747/0101/files/31111771139.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/6351/6824/files/72675381433.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7141/5196/files/bozawikofofumamivu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6078/9409/files/nejox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6028/8927/files/java_full_tutorial_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/9665/7320/files/practical_reliability_engineering_4th_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0378/1015/files/88773030841.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3504/9640/files/reweg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6547/3189/files/brainwave_entrainment_app_android.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9482/6396/files/kukulomuzomewupemelekipa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1955/9335/files/egypt_pyramids_information.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8609/4248/files/99_problems_and_messages_a_boogie_lyrics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1338/1028/files/rafamapesaruxobowesop.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_off00006564.bin
399a7665a637bf8ca748c404f19b61323e19a7fde8b448a487e0c4b8e217a804
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6564 5072 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000076b8.bin
f69fe24913095f375410335de3d0df906363acca0e57b29a411a06e163d8c93c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x76B8 11012 bytes