Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 375ac1a4f2a5b468…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.7 KB Created: 2020-08-08 05:33:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 411530d5d5a0f4e758ab4ce8c85c4441 SHA-1: e9724baa2402e39e052eada3363c8057e2ade2ed SHA-256: 375ac1a4f2a5b46813cc5e8efd6f181ac21864d9d235c9f3e7dafe3ba0f4ccac
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external resources. One critical heuristic firing indicates a malicious redirector link, specifically 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=free+english+speaking+lessons+pdf'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and other Shopify URLs, suggesting a lure to download or access further content. The presence of numerous PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a link farm designed to attract search engine traffic and potentially distribute malicious 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=free+english+speaking+lessons+pdf
    • http://rerazux.eastsidefoodforthought.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740044/69772364912.pdf
    • http://files.atypicalcoffee.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874233/narusejiruwale-xevinozisedeze.pdf
    • http://files.allinthestory.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406202/xogoluda.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0900/5978/files/adding_and_subtracting_fractions_worksheets_6th_grade.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3142/8248/files/alphabet_letter_tracing.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0008/4126/files/webassign_calculus_1_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2590/8383/files/sositevevan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7897/4616/files/xefoxega.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4519/9784/files/86349768653.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/2309/3147/files/excel_formulas_cheat_sheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0945/6803/files/risuvukudadetixibumaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3446/0828/files/nizowawo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2656/9633/files/13859387301.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8611/7019/files/lenilula.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1072/6815/files/46066880012.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6137/1290/files/19224789313.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_off0000604f.bin
2f51b2528b8c79b1aef83408e6990c60a2bbb38bf105a7b5016758337a2abf5a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x604F 5324 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000726c.bin
fbf9529b992fc6a0a610741dae18267221d937f954323f653c99d35aa98bf2b5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x726C 10460 bytes