Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 80ed20e4bee9499e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.2 KB Created: 2020-08-11 17:14:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 6b686f9c63a830fe6e39846a6fcd23a6 SHA-1: 5b00329a2d6bc439117f46a1a6272a43b7e86077 SHA-256: 80ed20e4bee9499ea1bc2d18b1e8ab6536f4367d802d3304e94ed32df38c409f
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL. This suggests the primary intent is to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution, leveraging SEO link farming techniques.

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=what+is+atlantic+slave+trade+pdf
    • http://files.pauljay-phd.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483275/4380807.pdf
    • http://files.sunnysidesymphony.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814666/kisigegis.pdf
    • http://files.carpetcleaninggoleta.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695586/faxiwuxomafena.pdf
    • http://xurat.whatsthemodel.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607163/xopaw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6749/7884/files/rajakegaguv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4327/4395/files/zasupufoviperur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8136/6693/files/23356594558.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4895/1194/files/nixejabigebetupij.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6172/2788/files/beanie_sewing_pattern.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1767/4656/files/big_data_basic_tutorial.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9436/0735/files/44689942588.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1576/6177/files/81892290162.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4361/8965/files/83605612475.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0041/4883/files/90885870152.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8804/4442/files/fuzutudefevilogaguvikit.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_off00006b68.bin
0fdf78684b0eb6f7aacc128f2e7459c21e0b88112785e03dc7c008f338d71787		 pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B68 4992 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007c57.bin
515359b0158a4f10e6e613fec90e88feaadc9ec5402850d06850ccd178314578		 pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C57 9784 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009dcf.bin
cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34		 pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9DCF 4324 bytes

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