Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5818c176b40711be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.8 KB Created: 2020-08-04 16:51:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 6d43df1ca1cadd9d0f2a3631d79a9a44 SHA-1: 615019980c594383acffb9d2b64b9c26a92d53de SHA-256: 5818c176b40711be92ca75ce17d4c0b94484bbb7c3b394cac9c2190fa86b21fc
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK indicates that the link https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=articles+d%25C3%25A9finis+ind%25C3%25A9finis+partitifs+contract%25C3%25A9s+exercices+corrig%25C3%25A9s+pdf leads to known malicious infrastructure. The PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic suggests a large number of external links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com, which are likely part of a link farm to improve search engine ranking for malicious content. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=articles+d%25C3%25A9finis+ind%25C3%25A9finis+partitifs+contract%25C3%25A9s+exercices+corrig%25C3%25A9s+pdf
    • http://files.doblarsarena.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438541/1705129.pdf
    • http://files.cccaec.us/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379249/laxevunuliloz-dasuzasigute-gujegopiz-dinofi.pdf
    • http://files.peakhealthcaremaryland.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406816/rizapisopasiraluzoga.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5312/0664/files/11983030861.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8285/8144/files/sojar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2653/7883/files/zatavofamiritejuvoxix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/fatexuxutul.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3420/4568/files/fituzafiraduketonikop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1459/4466/files/27856752523.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/3097/9495/files/86065654248.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9461/3924/files/2303392601.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3775/3501/files/pedasubevuwusamazikuval.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/nezaneseku.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9846/4661/files/74232770599.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3247/6838/files/acquired_aplastic_anemia.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1648/7065/files/tupipakubipexoremuwa.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_off0000819c.bin
bfbefa3dfc40db67ec2c8076e8fd297739e4b38e8c424c850ea9631305ca7f26
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x819C 5520 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009435.bin
b1b72a14d22291026852435d8b1f142ebb21db1777346b200b39c70630b51a95
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9435 11988 bytes