Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7bdd6b66994876cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.4 KB Created: 2020-08-03 19:30:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 244546364f90087cb0ae3d43ec93c295 SHA-1: 484f3776f02b68671b61b4150e4f4e95fa732d90 SHA-256: 7bdd6b66994876ccf8cd946a1e7b3ddd44192e3ee9c5a57f092d39ca91464da0
162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link that points to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=kakad+aarti+lyrics+in+kannada+pdf'. This URL is flagged as malicious and is part of a link farm designed to deceive users. The document also employs a social engineering lure, instructing the user to install a browser extension or update, which is a common tactic for credential theft or malware installation. The presence of numerous links, many pointing to benign Shopify PDFs, suggests an attempt to mask the malicious redirector within a larger set of links.

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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=kakad+aarti+lyrics+in+kannada+pdf
    • http://files.bishopgumbleton.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379371/tokasinipegog.pdf
    • http://files.flbutterflyeffectboutique.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383943/5370686.pdf
    • http://files.antoniodavidsinopoli.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873907/4090271.pdf
    • http://files.hannirosemindfulness.co.uk/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302987/1033280.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6156/5850/files/hp_officejet_pro_8600_plus_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1238/2117/files/61405325207.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6327/1833/files/84824759557.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6108/3301/files/96754416923.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3332/9817/files/16533385068.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0978/5499/files/6157549914.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2351/5294/files/femenajegufakax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4418/3974/files/75886225974.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4618/3847/files/37110242845.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4790/3644/files/goxevororaxelinuriwareta.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0279/7986/files/rikogonuxabefijatam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1077/6478/files/80881934602.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_off0000627d.bin
a4471a857590846fb9334605694f87a40470536624952f936833d254a6c9b27b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x627D 4844 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000072ff.bin
bc7f1d4854f1d8bef61481f8073f83bff85f2771cc010abc49af21299504680f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x72FF 10420 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000969f.bin
d1f4a20f0e35a0564be54678b929bb8c711862c507f070c2b9a6abea8daf4378
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x969F 4324 bytes