Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4325a9173cf9cee9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.0 KB Created: 2020-08-07 04:53:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4d539ca5e79c82b442f02deda8e2e5fe SHA-1: c43d3eb60e3cd2f7f41a5aa6e85e6006064f31f6 SHA-256: 4325a9173cf9cee9abbbff1684a90365a7e6ea0992500b3889b38a16baa74592
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Bsc economics books pdf' and a URL that appears to be part of a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=bsc+economics+books+pdf, which is likely used to redirect users to a malicious site. The presence of multiple Shopify URLs suggests an attempt to host malicious content on seemingly benign platforms.

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=bsc+economics+books+pdf
    • http://files.thismarketingspace.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483138/vixomatavufuvaka.pdf
    • http://files.briannaholt.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406365/bumitamedami-sukilebi-ponojuzorus.pdf
    • http://files.lifewellnessnutrtion.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438059/7599368.pdf
    • http://files.ashleybazer.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483009/623530.pdf
    • http://rileza.jongunnfitness.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380005/loraz-tekumos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2528/5798/files/66396417492.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5132/6371/files/xuwexixem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2834/9079/files/mexidaridunexojivovum.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3708/2271/files/varubifid.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8635/5357/files/tragic_kingdom_lyrics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9621/0594/files/90369349714.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2008/2590/files/gubitalewavezelegej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9072/2469/files/35835967405.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3815/4657/files/74909413877.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1659/3312/files/vibufiwozig.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6158/2741/files/aktiv_passiv_englisch_bungen_mit_lsungen.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2017/1936/files/62941309813.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_off00006cee.bin
00dcb2e00ba812d911e5344c4c39339432dcf852728dd676ba2e9db38f9eba4a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CEE 4924 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007d81.bin
824c946267cfd058e05153640278ca64e00cedafdffa933b86b5563113aa876c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D81 10396 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000a112.bin
a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA112 4324 bytes