Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2fec0a43587b0416…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.9 KB Created: 2020-08-21 23:48:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 71cda3685f114ea1fd3c57e44d8d2275 SHA-1: fb27bcdc22865683e56fd75a1b2acdef645c3f8c SHA-256: 2fec0a43587b0416f5e2f9765a5f8030053062e5ed63debc248711e9fe31db50
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector and others forming a link farm. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to a 'scientific method hypothesis worksheet' and the URL 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=scientific+method+hypothesis+worksheet', suggesting a lure to a potentially malicious site. The presence of numerous links, including the identified malicious redirector, indicates an attempt to lead the user to harmful content.

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=scientific+method+hypothesis+worksheet
    • http://pegegufer.collegesite.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406821/mafutuwot-xuvonepek-witiv-denomanogopeso.pdf
    • http://nowutizu.berksonrealty.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776886/kojabite.pdf
    • http://fipibixi.photographybyroque.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739220/deditite-fabaratuf.pdf
    • http://nomob.theroyalposts.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407818/feginuzalaguzexime.pdf
    • http://files.abqcanvasandcoffee.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070841/telewox-tuzug-vared.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5847/0822/files/baazigar_odia_film_song.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0124/0992/files/95936832287.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8332/3806/files/tchaikovsky_swan_lake_piano.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0333/0208/files/midogebimo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8693/0329/files/vegukekiposapuvofir.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/3218030698.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5361/2182/files/49872592200.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3150/2749/files/48895521135.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4305/2953/files/28105693440.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_off00005aa8.bin
b9404cc7bfd8f26d2cb46c925ec04b437b36b83c3dd2cc8e2d81dbb4fa721de4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5AA8 5512 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006d4b.bin
86926da2c86207195f2060b066c5d6897c278af70160ae3cf99852b00e1b4c78
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D4B 9748 bytes