Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7d64710d24700bbf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.8 KB Created: 2020-08-01 23:02:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 44fdc81838ece08ce4eb7ba089f1c7a0 SHA-1: 518d56918e1073eace8e79792d416c111ca41135 SHA-256: 7d64710d24700bbf026bb510a10963000e1c680c5d50885ae5bd00bbc3fefb2f
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=cs+interview+cheat+sheet'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous links to external PDFs, including one hosted on cdn.shopify.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the text 'Cs interview cheat sheet' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the link.

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=cs+interview+cheat+sheet
    • http://files.thepotwarehouse.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383743/xajurajumud.pdf
    • http://files.transportofyesteryear.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776001/gefaxuzujajerav-jigivimij-mudasene.pdf
    • http://files.shenandoahpiper.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776120/3972640.pdf
    • http://files.civil-vapes.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453684/kakoziwedi.pdf
    • http://files.thepotwa
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5005/5318/files/givejemosekiruvatejalelit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5004/9446/files/jifumixakameviw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3866/2053/files/21217446874.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0835/9589/files/rowazusa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2681/5903/files/60961780108.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9825/7048/files/wetipunikevoza.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8052/4710/files/fedujegiboxe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6576/1176/files/89015135599.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/1741554469.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5004/9448/files/46202745792.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7784/3609/files/katiz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5778/9605/files/92045290709.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_off00007b47.bin
7ce3810d3f245178bc59a900ceed7852e9fca11a5450bd5991af42906872c265
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B47 4912 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008c0a.bin
f37943d6b255f3608ef4067e7f8eb1562018c181e876025903da03f885205bf9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8C0A 16956 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000c0dc.bin
b2cbfceaf44fc4a56d1321c5677f125dfbde6a5f8c873b6a17361dd7c2aa5302
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC0DC 16232 bytes