Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 36d7a364068755cd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.5 KB Created: 2020-08-05 14:47:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 76d8da1f12972b1623ba8c8b4555a151 SHA-1: cf2b9b8950e25e61bd1a5352e0b0d1741bf22105 SHA-256: 36d7a364068755cd6139df3a460257031ad1f8befa75ef26d7ceb09b94691e81
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external resources. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=comunicacion+intercultural+definicion+pdf'. Another critical heuristic flagged the document as a link farm, with 30 PDF links generated, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content. The document body contains garbled text and the authoring application is wkhtmltopdf, indicating it was likely programmatically generated to host these links.

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=comunicacion+intercultural+definicion+pdf
    • http://files.curbsidewithlove.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398488/6218630.pdf
    • http://files.guide2tech4teachers.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874075/6341713.pdf
    • http://files.kaingagame.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775977/vavewudelozekap.pdf
    • http://files.vape-prevention.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454549/5808565.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/parisibudipaxetiwori.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2627/6775/files/83436467289.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/5042/9598/files/mobi_to.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3815/4653/files/32684803482.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1552/7833/files/modified_preorder_tree_traversal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/3621/6229/files/ubuntu_14._04_source_list.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8174/1976/files/maxiwuvejenamadanol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8749/5321/files/let_her_go_guitar_tablature.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3830/0568/files/metuzesofibabolaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5747/8823/files/factores_bioticos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1161/2578/files/29491863380.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4508/5606/files/ersan_ilyasova_contract.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_off00008d40.bin
61e4cff8b8c215119c21c1fdf8548d36b360075e6f5fe2c0fb9147936722b83a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8D40 5028 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009e3d.bin
02a2c6cf9341c2fe63dc1c4ae91acaa8041d9fe11b85e94c70f96d88d79133a5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9E3D 10192 bytes