Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d569171b6b241e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

63.4 KB Created: 2020-08-03 11:10:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 84f3cb6f99c66495393b7e3356461fa0 SHA-1: b92b99a1f0ba5f5056c18851d6c25c05be8d36da SHA-256: 3d569171b6b241e6ff6880f22009e2c3fb2616d147fa5ca20af95e9df8abe1d6
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK, indicating it points to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Nilsson electric circuits 10th edition solutions pdf' and a URL that matches the redirector. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, suggesting a broad distribution attempt. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=nilsson+electric+circuits+10th+edition+solutions+pdf.

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=nilsson+electric+circuits+10th+edition+solutions+pdf
    • http://files.appletreecontractors.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607712/9709263.pdf
    • http://files.betweentheriversgathering.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740517/tonif-zowagodadigogu-sorel-pisogole.pdf
    • http://files.motherstouchhomehealth.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607310/zolotuzulukigawuk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6601/5400/files/vinulilijon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/80023348890.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7260/0726/files/zuganurugumonixuzakabox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6009/2309/files/kewiximilenezixinis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7053/5318/files/ellie_goulding_burn_lyrics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3653/2136/files/kerekotusologapupulut.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/68769425665.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9862/8501/files/64245793794.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0070/9791/files/kugewogute.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5956/9055/files/79948983971.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2358/8773/files/mirujisib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8697/0021/files/pexezivoxar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6856/3351/files/4821240657.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9145/2313/files/84928022728.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7586/9599/files/gehl_5640_service_manual.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_off0000b074.bin
8e475f74fbfb9ab9029b8253645fbe0d6c0212f6c30adb83ba927acb0a3406fc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB074 5196 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000c225.bin
f2718d789f696e591bfed2bc232f939fd00b8b1381b00d52fef9c27fc74d77c4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC225 14276 bytes