Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7481b643232a7cdc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.3 KB Created: 2020-08-04 20:03:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ff2ba820919765ec8c3901c8ea898697 SHA-1: c4f8044d3e20e602cae5e5f491fbeec5d786d98b SHA-256: 7481b643232a7cdc5e501afa785d382ac4a0437df7f31073dd313d8ecd0d7a69
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=2020+calorie+meal+plan+bodybuilding+pdf'. This URL is embedded within the document's body text, disguised as a bodybuilding meal plan. The document also contains a PDF link farm heuristic, with many links pointing to Shopify domains, one of which is the confirmed benign 'https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0443/3071/3244/files/how_can_i_electronically_sign_a_document.pdf'. The primary malicious intent appears to be redirecting users to potentially harmful content.

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=2020+calorie+meal+plan+bodybuilding+pdf
    • http://files.societyofartistsnewcastle.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872105/wosojare_raferexibesubo_lebopumoradoso_jilapexomuwo.pdf
    • http://files.cedarvillelearningcenter.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408537/vasagireparepo.pdf
    • http://files.rocoveryfitness.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398204/363546a5fd.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0443/3071/3244/files/how_can_i_electronically_sign_a_document.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7763/1126/files/kunakonujukikepu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2990/5058/files/86240275121.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4420/8797/files/90950705291.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3577/7445/files/72736915061.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3629/5836/files/17686836527.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7880/9755/files/85374776680.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/libidurekatomanazavevufi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9354/1535/files/77791525415.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5207/2086/files/51998749672.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5335/0040/files/juwabamoxisibigavakedega.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4726/4166/files/lujibikabagonarufib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1392/1189/files/52617406478.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/1/0428/9835/8432/files/libidurekatomana

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006db1.bin
674e58a40c4feb21b475e85e01f535f8b12e627008f4d010f2e198520fd1451d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6DB1 5720 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000810f.bin
86292cea4a2d68f0a2f2f051b276b79dc77e2e7258a2a67171454bafd975750c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x810F 10232 bytes