Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3b8ad329a8512782…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.9 KB Created: 2020-08-17 02:21:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 886404f878f94c524a570061f8a0f7fc SHA-1: c1c7777c7bd7e0e4aa775c43d287ccf28cf12439 SHA-256: 3b8ad329a85127823e7b0bbea9f535738638fbbf8e011ea364e8b3f764f9baed
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was flagged for containing a malicious redirector link and a link farm. The primary malicious URL, https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=snow+leopard+fact+sheet, is likely used to funnel victims to a malicious site. The document body, though heavily corrupted, contains this URL and numerous other links hosted on cdn.shopify.com and other domains, suggesting a broad distribution attempt. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure itself is the delivery mechanism.

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=snow+leopard+fact+sheet
    • http://files.drsunnyimwang.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382141/140128.pdf
    • http://nijaxe.wisteria-cottage.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776068/bexod.pdf
    • http://files.apriloliviaroskos.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776343/5590168.pdf
    • http://sitaza.swcfcu.org/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302780/5682287.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/3671/7735/files/air_pollution_project_in_marathi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6528/6566/files/90365469181.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7353/5142/files/fuver.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/72707516801.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0445/2246/files/10019426824.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2991/4012/files/grammar_worksheet_grade_7.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8634/7430/files/basic_accounting_interview_questions_and_answers_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/25668779603.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7078/2614/files/swarm_robotics_report_in.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_005_off000096df.bin
e86f69ab3d757b34d77f77772b691abd25ecb7c14446fed027c07bf828fc3116
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x96DF 17944 bytes
font_00_sfnt_off000061bf.bin
e0db707b58de281a69852dde688796c53848642b066f1470693bb4467a23b29d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61BF 5440 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007441.bin
40fb0c1c84cc4c6eebf19cf8a25fda9c6feab096e26a14b0d23b7d3ee1e7085b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7441 10148 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0000b13e.bin
0177dc9fed6e485210c38b6cb340191c30ab54e7e7caebf7152274724facc80c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB13E 3328 bytes