Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4200352d464b4f0c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.5 KB Created: 2020-08-08 14:07:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 83b84dd0705688409f0760ff400af31c SHA-1: e992cefc33b75081258728f99dd03a7da57abd91 SHA-256: 4200352d464b4f0ccc67d9db66b87626f4096ad4a7f6a25452b4db8047536337
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be a lure for 'maniac magee comprehension questions pdf'. This URL, https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=maniac+magee+comprehension+questions+pdf, is the primary indicator of malicious intent, likely serving as a phishing or malware delivery mechanism. The file also contains a large number of embedded links to other PDFs, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic.

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=maniac+magee+comprehension+questions+pdf
    • http://files.bnaaok.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437503/misinefuletuwalojore.pdf
    • http://files.okdkg.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378953/9639825.pdf
    • http://files.astrologermaggie.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695352/puvelo.pdf
    • http://matavew.fosteringforwardmi.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712615/570b55.pdf
    • http://files.takaikari.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739480/majakeros-safosiw-doxifi-bikiv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8760/9497/files/sufesafinugojadobuwad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2831/5293/files/wezenizasitigitalo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6935/8758/files/pdf_to_visio_converter.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6612/0609/files/15222862315.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2391/7478/files/lapenesejakofivaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5340/8675/files/47628429116.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5543/8234/files/75954821192.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1778/0896/files/31208124617.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8414/3010/files/rubezegegax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1097/2053/files/85326865551.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0281/4876/files/69665202102.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3019/2039/files/fatepogizik.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_off000070a9.bin
f7aaba16b47a2e76cbd4992356fca6a68448cca997a0afa5ea6559cb33928914
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70A9 5552 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008352.bin
df3bb5547ca648186cf38841f7bae79e9f074bcea0102c65c9d5788110b876eb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8352 10448 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000a6c1.bin
ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA6C1 4324 bytes