Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 53e044d265e057bb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.5 KB Created: 2020-08-11 23:16:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 723130b306e86d3f9dbd4b8401dcccd6 SHA-1: bef24d61c72ba148c6234ad98c4b88e78d92fb1c SHA-256: 53e044d265e057bbd40bddbf507549af86a89420070c24127ba4787467d743bd
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, a common tactic for SEO link farms and redirecting users to malicious sites. One such link, https://ttraff.ru/wb?keyword=library%20management%20system%20mini%20project%20pdf, is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to this URL and other Shopify-hosted PDFs, suggesting a lure to a malicious site disguised as a legitimate document. The presence of multiple PDF links and a malicious redirector indicates a phishing or redirection attack.

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/wb?keyword=library%20management%20system%20mini%20project%20pdf
    • http://files.fromtherootsuphealing.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438142/0d8c755809c1.pdf
    • http://baweju.ruthcwilliams.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383483/jonezak_xeteje.pdf
    • http://javowonu.pptflorida.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739038/7745772a8.pdf
    • http://files.maidstonecounselling.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379792/zoseroxej-jesar-kodeb-dakutajaxaginug.pdf
    • http://files.michaelbutlerbrown.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871642/3820d4c29.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9289/2053/files/jokapopamobezoritoxa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2990/6079/files/72507752149.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8638/8123/files/universal_remote_codes_for_sanyo_tvs.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1415/1589/files/46225519176.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7066/8453/files/9635369269.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1021/2519/files/70532759476.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3100/2264/files/dopixijofejoxafoxil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6734/1981/files/jawoxenosoxugigaji.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4884/3929/files/wirur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6238/6079/files/speak_up_fraleigh.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6369/7817/files/vefir.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5459/5225/files/mechanical_ventilation_in_restrictive_lung_disease.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5894/4405/files/kabaneruwulafosumugusufa.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_off000096d4.bin
9d9a61031225064b3363fc04db2dcb2a3f747fb13ef12843bfcdaf595bd42db2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x96D4 5704 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000aa2c.bin
2a1fedabd3d4d3ea02ba826cb9111549132310a5bda5face0a40273e918de5c5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAA2C 10196 bytes