Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5a0d8a148e8114ab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.8 KB Created: 2020-08-22 10:19:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 811726c133fb152bd3c5038b52296c0d SHA-1: fa2d1e85a2336e4861ff4f99af919b9b0e52a96f SHA-256: 5a0d8a148e8114ab75ffb3bcdf767a3b65e63157e94b2ce1a13b23d8e3d38bb9
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external resources, including a known malicious redirector at ttraff.ru. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL for the malicious redirector. This suggests the document is designed to lead users to malicious infrastructure, likely for further exploitation or phishing. 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=surge+arrester+transformer+neutral
    • http://files.barrongafford.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813755/tubosenokif-kemategivet-menafubiditom.pdf
    • http://files.thegoodnewswebsite.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398140/tomur.pdf
    • http://files.leaplearnlive.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302736/4371586.pdf
    • http://files.maxiandolikessler.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683289/9094524.pdf
    • http://files.toffears.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384412/a211f6e9.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/jeravutudab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/30072581460.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/45927795399.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4166/6710/files/navidabotekuvagalexojoka.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/2634/6147/files/whatsapp_backup_from_android_phone_to_iphone.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6728/4383/files/calvin_klein_high_top_platform_sneakers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1975/3879/files/define_collective_bargaining_agreement.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2754/5757/files/anterior_staphyloma.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3340/2266/files/59055271700.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/9251/2678/files/15401082473.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_off00009e1f.bin
bfdad46a45cffab2410b8a7ede368251d7a5b53899ff4370a51b68a5974146ef
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9E1F 5188 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000afac.bin
5520c1231df4fa84ce4640a961e04c2e657fe0572b6e42526f786a572a23cd20
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAFAC 10168 bytes