Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 86fc7a05f1c6b88d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.5 KB Created: 2020-09-02 00:41:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5662090def1abb5e3406459b335acfbd SHA-1: ce7aca5dd6c8d7f4fa015077a123553c7b091138 SHA-256: 86fc7a05f1c6b88d7cd533fe73085a87db9a49d5c898a7ebe898ed36f9adcac1
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF contains numerous links, including one pointing to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=board+of+directors+duties+pdf'. This suggests a phishing or scam attempt where the user is tricked into clicking the link, which then redirects them to malicious infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, reinforcing the malicious intent. The presence of a large number of other PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, indicates a potential link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to obscure the malicious destination.

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/wix?keyword=board+of+directors+duties+pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1599/4529/files/29581362976.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4958/1724/files/sazer.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4466/7553/files/c_language_objective_questions.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2639/8888/files/autocad_all_commands_in.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9e41f0_ad078a31e7bf423abb038d6777c38289.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9ea9b6_3fa47dd5f82e402fadbe59bc22321d0f.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8821/4171/files/key_quests_mh4u.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3576/1562/files/bitwise_and_python.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9769/4114/files/college_board_test_3_answer_key.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0446/8637/7113/files/amplitude_modulation_equation.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0831/7850/files/manual_blender_2._79_portugues.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/mirizopenifipometetotagoz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3276/3801/files/narcolepsy_diagnosis_guidelines.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1396/3939/files/moxegimaxetalitirajuz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3817/0523/files/85397607717.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9436/8671/files/life_after_apk_mod_1._0._145.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000066b4.bin
2d3b5111d0d41561e8dd4a2eaeb289685bce9fa48c87f5f41493255a10c57dcc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x66B4 5164 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007859.bin
954a40166d6f044b685922bd8f9993c2ae4eb42624f89b185e56d7c8b1dfb4c7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7859 9672 bytes