Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 437c8a508ef78d1b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.3 KB Created: 2020-08-05 14:05:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 412985af90cfb900a6742e9b42d615be SHA-1: 42ce0dbe163bca777547f887db3850b67169c94d SHA-256: 437c8a508ef78d1b85dfcbad495193bab069d084865d34077eecd84be287ff64
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=business+report+writing+examples+pdf'. This link is presented within the document body, disguised as a business report, likely to trick users into clicking it. The document also contains a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt to increase visibility. No scripts were extracted, and the document body is heavily obfuscated, but the primary malicious intent appears to be redirection to the identified malicious URL.

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=business+report+writing+examples+pdf
    • http://files.compressfirstky.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131397927/xizafi-galomufawedo-gumovipusivu-kuvaxufagon.pdf
    • http://files.thaisrussomano.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381839/1092220.pdf
    • http://files.sterlingartsanddesign.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740429/5991070.pdf
    • http://files.majesticentertainmentinc.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681464/14901bb54baea.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1818/2041/files/pattern_making_books_for_fashion_design.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4141/4552/files/segimaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9812/8036/files/71531643531.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6698/2561/files/70528403988.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6676/1120/files/rurovutarovowiwidudo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9394/1671/files/watch_gotham_season_3_online.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1339/7924/files/lucky_block_mod_1._8.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7039/8372/files/steampunk_minecraft_texture_pack.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9474/6023/files/wobusiperovukanebutakit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2684/0737/files/paduxorasezu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9171/3447/files/kanoparijemofedise.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1734/6976/files/59881125691.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8978/0124/files/pedejafepenipaxipubakar.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_off00007514.bin
e7d7dae02bb0f90cc5afe426bf9e39497a2a1c13f97916d29503bb5d2effc07d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7514 5568 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000880c.bin
5862b91325902b43114f28565ff9abd95076d98d9b88841e2ab994f1ffd48e5a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x880C 10604 bytes