Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3167b95d9eaba543…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.5 KB Created: 2020-09-02 16:54:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 916deae4322ea0aea3f32c7f54e50b51 SHA-1: 4ce6b8638a948179ec2482c19fd45fa9b6266322 SHA-256: 3167b95d9eaba543774916e82a634739731c5950deb777a0d597a50b0f857e23
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=biomedical+statistics+and+informatics+journal'. Another critical heuristic, PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM, indicates a large number of external links, with 'https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4742/6975/files/oxford_phonics_world_readers_level_1.pdf' being the first identified. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains these URLs, suggesting a tactic to drive traffic to malicious or SEO-manipulated 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/wix?keyword=biomedical+statistics+and+informatics+journal
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4742/6975/files/oxford_phonics_world_readers_level_1.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3152/7575/files/bekosevi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4433/8838/files/fuvesevevomax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4402/7038/files/whos_your_daddy_game.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d017d5_c9958d344f5e4cc688422e9485a4dc4d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7dfe85_a49fbbf903b440c1a7177a1f7527306e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fa32a6_496a009ba1ad430793a880ecb098bb46.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_4950e941ebea4572b77eaad6d11f2c47.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2740/6746/files/drive_safe_save_app_for_android.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9067/3813/files/48667590238.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8831/2488/files/blackmail_2005_movie_video_song.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/50de67_4f6ee0b868c748fd9773a91ae94ebd80.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e35fb9174f764b579e129f622a8f2444.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/dfb5f8_550c7149cf354088a3675140943f5f49.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ef7b09_1d9f8fde2db449a88c318beb09eaecca.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ae15ca_934d70b55bc646358080594ba811e307.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_off00007e09.bin
f10fabe025d043b6ee27505e7aa9fdb535ef4964360efd13d6ccc1aa76070f35
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E09 5292 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008ff3.bin
2ff909252e5a70f54a3e30c378d9ca7220d5465c21221ea662f87ae50b30f50b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8FF3 10800 bytes