Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89f522385a430eb4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.1 KB Created: 2020-08-24 19:40:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 751ed9bcc506095c872e77562bab6548 SHA-1: 66c686081036c4ec2359a6befa8c78a4cf0c9550 SHA-256: 89f522385a430eb4ba8f6596cf008d807ea2cd135b3c0c8ebfbb8b1170b1e0b1
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'ttraff.ru'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded links, many hosted on Shopify. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL and a keyword related to a manual, suggesting a lure. The presence of a 'SE_URGENCY_LURE' heuristic further supports the phishing pretext. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which is likely used to funnel victims to a malicious site.

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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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=carefusion+ltv+1200+manual
    • http://files.snugpubcocoavillage.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482823/3721711.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9299/2410/files/area_of_triangle_formed_by_three_vectors.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6895/6565/files/28465614312.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8982/9800/files/49077661383.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9262/2998/files/16119632655.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3349/3658/files/wakusajivaxagegepodebugin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0625/4494/files/blackmagic_speed_test_windows.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/61403973964.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5369/4626/files/gokewakomuvazifa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9140/2660/files/98669151420.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5720/8731/files/hyperkalemia_gain_guidelines.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8638/0189/files/80917204788.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3098/4357/files/64655997894.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_off00005f01.bin
d0e7a100ed3a0e523d202193603643dfd1b57d135c82c9bc945bb2dd195fa64e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F01 5204 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000070a6.bin
0a9b711da933767250c87833d4d388e90804e82aa9fb9750bcc260bdee459204
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70A6 10584 bytes