Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4522b70a29c1786c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.7 KB Created: 2020-08-15 06:43:55 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3ab1d2050dcaaffe5a2831c753d7a1e8 SHA-1: 9b63893e9c32f72dcc2e8d16fa93fb540cb6a9b8 SHA-256: 4522b70a29c1786c546b0385f32a3790e7760c2657055d499144f22791104602
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file was identified as malicious due to the presence of numerous embedded links, a technique often used for SEO manipulation or to redirect users to malicious content. One critical heuristic flagged a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at https://ttraff.ru/pify. While no scripts were extracted, the sheer volume of links, including a link farm targeting Shopify domains, suggests a campaign focused on traffic generation or potentially distributing further payloads. The document body contains garbled text and URLs, reinforcing the malicious nature.

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=hashar+song+status
    • http://files.thebeautybarnuk.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856134/wafedukasi.pdf
    • http://rosis.tourtrax.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969744/tagopipanitoxuf.pdf
    • http://notamov.hornywheelers.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070993/jisidavatesosuzif.pdf
    • http://files.sainttheresaattleboro.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695568/sitigo.pdf
    • http://files.tcccmi.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131405948/0e54f69e4.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0736/9639/files/free_12x24_shed_plans.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9434/3841/files/mind_body_relationship_in_health_psychology.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4556/0219/files/nuduvabewenalabukeku.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1350/5185/files/makin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1778/9862/files/lapodojewazogimujopexaset.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5095/1066/files/77405594445.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0989/2767/files/ramomorewemejel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6081/2190/files/aashto_lrfd_bridge_design_specifications_download.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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000047e3.bin
fdcde5f105f8dde3dbdb912ef7272e40bc54cb6c441c30ef506dc8c1fd5301a9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x47E3 4876 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000586f.bin
07e141ca5c9ae483240f79d91c998e7dea0d3838d1616a94d6029cfe6948c89c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x586F 2956 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000064d3.bin
a88755f6362ca0dee29195f2253d2465f2964ce90137d3fc181c592fafa91d1b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64D3 5680 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off000074c8.bin
d0211c37699b64380b170bfa275385cfa4912c6a95c293ad9009ee24b04c951a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74C8 9032 bytes
font_04_sfnt_off000093f7.bin
0216150ac0e5ade23b072752459620ec704bdac01526bfbadd96d51f96873ef3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x93F7 16168 bytes