Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 466a884f8b079c20…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.9 KB Created: 2020-08-29 02:52:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 8013e9607093a9f625e560d451407ce1 SHA-1: 80984a53b4d2db21928e18cce0576bc0ac0684b7 SHA-256: 466a884f8b079c205776f4c0e723092288e58cc8f13914d2e618e6f6fde653e7
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a PDF link farm. One of the primary links points to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'ttraff.ru'. While many other links point to benign Shopify domains hosting PDFs, the presence of the malicious redirector and the sheer volume of links suggest an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content through a link farm. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, limiting further analysis of the specific lure.

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/wix?keyword=number+line+template+0-20
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9888/9635/files/cancer_pulmonar_articulo_de_revision.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6014/9910/files/39844712638.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5894/4405/files/cloudformation_build_spec.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7d8fc4fd0ad94a6da987e6ac189295b7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a2eb49c687ef45a28f29cbe42912ab83.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_04244193227144738393786ac1a82aa0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5b35804b4e1b42b0b027bcbe58865553.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_46c3feeb149940869aea17a1290c2170.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_942f0c572a584e59a5cc141a15430da4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0d3a9aaa7b394840a10067bfcc32ede7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6b386d4fea1f4f8880ee482204dfd440.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ff402b1537dc4491aaa535dbdb94edd5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_53ed3c5fc2ae476893ca132eca976b80.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6ecce2c2441a42d0b8ca3ab46d43b0e0.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_off00005a1d.bin
d68d1bfc2246ad73fd3a7d33d5e2dfe8acc3e7eb02125e5c44826b77a6cdc92e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A1D 4972 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006add.bin
a45a17e4cae49b1de7da6ecbe71d58daf95464832bdf566c4a7744b2a53d221a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6ADD 9956 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00008cd5.bin
ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8CD5 4324 bytes