Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4b65aa4d6f5b10e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.1 KB Created: 2020-07-28 10:07:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7837d68f09d1f920fba01bfc21cb0b15 SHA-1: 2cdbfc14ffaedd4d8e400fc2915f0765b0cea17a SHA-256: 4b65aa4d6f5b10e67a8ccb29e97aaf369f6730cf7ce4dc438d3da5e0ee56ba3a
180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with one critical heuristic identifying a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=terraform+aws_s3_bucket+inventory'. Another critical heuristic indicates a large PDF link farm, with many links pointing to Shopify domains. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, appears to contain keywords related to Terraform and AWS, likely as a lure. The primary attack pattern involves social engineering through deceptive content and malicious links to redirect users to harmful sites.

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • Recovery secret / private key request critical SE_SECRET_RECOVERY_LURE
    Document requests recovery phrases, private keys, backup codes, or saved passwords. Requests for these secrets in a document are high-risk.
  • 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=terraform+aws_s3_bucket+inventory
    • http://files.board.solonchamber.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814611/ea8cd82f55.pdf
    • http://files.godswaytshirts.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302815/7c24d7928c8eda5.pdf
    • http://files.myleftlane.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636903/bukarigozi.pdf
    • http://files.jplotitocompany.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814172/0ff6d0a.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/86372263330.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7348/4438/files/21471634505.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7905/5000/files/43428052512.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4116/0344/files/42622409468.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4052/9816/files/61956716138.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2004/1886/files/kubisolitelusimimad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3425/5258/files/degufefodifozunuxufojiw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7580/6119/files/7475346995.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1516/0487/files/sakasaxoxuredalerekot.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3278/0695/files/99609887005.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2594/8072/files/peradezaginab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/45598155969.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2384/2983/files/83089741613.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/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4116

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000083d2.bin
57473354548fdeb1f1e089b819b4dfdc4c911bfbafafa4a6316fd0a9fbc5c508
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x83D2 5480 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000968a.bin
e90cc66522984218a32b571926b689d9b9a2b89de05820acd167587592b86404
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x968A 10632 bytes