Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7a9e4be07cbdd778…

MALICIOUS

PDF

55.0 KB Created: 2020-08-10 09:38:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 74f061b701a68d7bc2401b451d9aaf34 SHA-1: f0c5918f7ebe14ceb4c1aac14a069f940963a456 SHA-256: 7a9e4be07cbdd778160ebdac4ee49e0147b98628c5659e2491dc520bcf3733c6
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=blank+sheet+music+for+guitar+pdf'. Another critical heuristic identified a PDF link farm, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains the same redirector URL and several benign-looking Shopify URLs, likely used to lend legitimacy. The presence of multiple unknown URLs further supports the malicious intent.

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=blank+sheet+music+for+guitar+pdf
    • http://files.killjoy.info/uploads/1/3/2/8/132816158/444fa6d86d0810f.pdf
    • http://files.moamsticks.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682335/096ccbbb09bdf0.pdf
    • http://files.purepointacu.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776276/nivalaxivaki-zipala-xanenusuxikibe.pdf
    • http://tusawuji.juelzofthenile.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740405/2012025.pdf
    • http://files.learningessentialsnc.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740241/4934603.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2217/0787/files/wukibotareserukasitatu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8558/6849/files/vavifidisa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2091/7668/files/teaching_writing_descriptive_text.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/4029/8392/files/nomenclatura_de_alcanos_alquenos_y_alquinos_ejercicios.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9671/7992/files/62117607287.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2017/9864/files/risejikaxugopifakovewikof.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3413/2131/files/kuxexivimakuninupavaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3126/3394/files/kidogibunowigelulan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5830/8006/files/57549084660.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5100/8671/files/8862413106.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5296/6812/files/xotutejawarujexu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1724/8672/files/29177394401.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0676/2903/files/lixizalizupuwigosenoko.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000081cc.bin
fff93205c0759333c5ba024171e3769ae683b3a93e4ceb131b7d0da70252126f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x81CC 5684 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000094fb.bin
02237dec4964a581aa89514fa2af877c9a17b86c176dc9ce7484412179776236
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x94FB 10844 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000b987.bin
84650fe671c70ac66f3af0994468c9b9feb42d01905b0f030d5781e095ef8e52
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB987 16100 bytes