Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3c98d3f46387f630…

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.2 KB Created: 2020-08-13 04:46:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4d8a2d01bc1d4f8dc92c7cdf065fa730 SHA-1: 321f57d5becb3ed6450d39e1b93ccd9002458f38 SHA-256: 3c98d3f46387f630590b10f42c99650009b88ae1e45a306d5c5f5e69f31d7f98
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/wb?keyword=cost%20accounting%20past%20questions%20and%20answers%20pdf'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a link farm, embedding numerous external PDF links, with the primary one being 'https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4442/8181/files/kovotegibilipixuwogixivem.pdf'. The document body, though heavily corrupted, contains text related to cost accounting and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious redirection.

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/wb?keyword=cost%20accounting%20past%20questions%20and%20answers%20pdf
    • http://files.apsleepingindianhemp.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453401/5372330.pdf
    • http://sokira.jamesnehring.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383908/379330.pdf
    • http://files.richieburridge.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384573/xojotamega-rapelifa-kabit-vakusapu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4442/8181/files/kovotegibilipixuwogixivem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3653/2136/files/organic_chemistry_class_11_ncert_notes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5348/2138/files/vodivum.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2496/6044/files/financial_accounting_ledger.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6423/6968/files/jose_peppers_menu_nutrition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9079/5934/files/45628270728.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1566/6840/files/83941317787.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5646/3014/files/pdfmake_angularjs_jsfiddle.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6503/1321/files/xijilizibinalodumananove.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3675/3570/files/semi_automatic_transmission_system.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0546/8068/files/33847124625.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4605/0714/files/agrimensura_topografia.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2800/4507/files/wutuzexekivuxatunukewup.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7184/0161/files/49998043191.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_off000048b0.bin
d508c1cbb22ec072c9e247632a14f3ed69a1ff2d59e9fab2ba5fa83b77461eda
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x48B0 5412 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005b33.bin
555107eccbf6b2e5b6266b86edaaac559aee53bd68928aefdab2b9fdec06e19e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B33 9612 bytes