Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 38eea97491aa237b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.6 KB Created: 2020-08-02 23:25:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4a42e87e2c07c535be61571078925221 SHA-1: 97f30a0f0d78e36f64527441fc2a89b3fc3e0eb7 SHA-256: 38eea97491aa237b7cd5129eb9a7ae1796bb163a427fe7dad7ea79b2992e4eab
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 PDF files hosted on Shopify. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=max+of+list+python'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting it is the primary lure. The file's purpose appears to be to redirect users to malicious infrastructure through this link farm.

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=max+of+list+python
    • http://files.bronzeleonleonbergers.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398194/3472526.pdf
    • http://files.ridgemontresources.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775387/jejefi.pdf
    • http://files.ralphmason.co.uk/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815123/ronilugufagubag.pdf
    • http://files.candctreeservicega.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740541/7614029.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7352/8213/files/11546367944.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9322/1783/files/megukamokurapozum.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1995/2550/files/79860386209.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/78649322563.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8937/9993/files/converter_lb_to_kg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/41758367329.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0587/8173/files/30553290658.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8144/1181/files/71024326936.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1067/9203/files/3630501858.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3439/5295/files/24090559768.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4652/6361/files/14516189544.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2757/0596/files/mivita.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3952/1959/files/vupumubaxafojowaju.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006645.bin
e8d2ead954a86d4c9863103f3ffef22b19ad6c32b531ae0f82c45afcbd6d3032
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6645 5068 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000077a4.bin
2c5e08e30303ecc4fcc3379326ddf6c3c1643bbdddaa044ccf94882499bb4c74
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77A4 13924 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000a3ef.bin
cb8b0c3b75634a3ac40028f3142d2b99dbff9c8bfe93654f62892c2eba89f065
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA3EF 16336 bytes