Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c6a9810af70158a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.1 KB Created: 2020-08-25 03:24:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: c57e42a041ca0604edf6f460085917ca SHA-1: 9fc278925dc3138409f21c39b988806d940c6b9a SHA-256: 3c6a9810af70158a9cd3d449f49b3cac885b9fb850de643f5ee1114d88336d5e
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, which points to ttraff.ru. The document body also contains this URL and a large number of other URLs, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com, suggesting a link farm for SEO poisoning. The 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' heuristic indicates the document may be instructing the user to open a password-protected archive, a common tactic to bypass gateway security. The primary malicious URL is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=password+protect+pdf+acrobat+reader+2017, which is likely used to redirect to a malicious payload or phishing page.

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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=password+protect+pdf+acrobat+reader+2017
    • http://duribin.sarahelizabethhealthfitness.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682787/4e61121.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6861/1989/files/zagid.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0709/9558/files/71259720747.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0604/2023/files/lususibumileriwan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3276/3801/files/oxford_english_english_tamil_dictionary_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2314/6906/files/8333585946.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9592/4640/files/nolawupu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7511/6961/files/62371707286.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0329/7437/files/cancer_de_cuello_uterino_colombia.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2099/9064/files/emily_s_hopes_and_fears.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7732/0352/files/27849267121.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4917/2635/files/tamifesikuxuxikazol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6874/4087/files/cope_acute_abdomen_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1267/0111/files/11727366276.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_off000065e8.bin
8558555266d7fabc7184030dca6c0a51325738325a2120ae75b025b2057f8c7b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65E8 5756 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000079ab.bin
b647d786251dd15b729f9c8276403663e6cc5cab735bad3223eedd20812eb320
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79AB 9896 bytes