Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c839d24fa5f06b1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.2 KB Created: 2020-08-06 03:57:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 549aa549b6dcab50e5ef419eaf2d985d SHA-1: 1192710cad366322e28a9715d02b9a22ad72ed94 SHA-256: 8c839d24fa5f06b1dc20bea1cf1344374da9c336ad12768bc19fc0ff0458ee89
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to domains associated with link farms or redirectors. The primary malicious link identified is 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=cage+alcohol+questionnaire+pdf', which is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting an attempt to disguise malicious content as a questionnaire. The presence of numerous links to Shopify domains, some flagged as benign, may be an attempt to blend malicious links with legitimate ones.

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=cage+alcohol+questionnaire+pdf
    • http://files.pjeterkoleci.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681938/f414f68e3faf.pdf
    • http://files.shannonkiernanlmt.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969312/gakogigug.pdf
    • http://files.tntcattledogs.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739004/e2979c.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1772/2280/files/tomanikolusigazik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9963/4330/files/15092253386.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7181/3285/files/atipia_linfocitaria.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/7082322425.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8026/9477/files/ziwupurafov.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3025/7568/files/2000_cadillac_sts.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9117/3278/files/suzageravus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/99839510681.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8947/7273/files/art_forms_in_nature_the_prints_of_ernst_haeckel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8947/7273/files/40208445748.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6196/8025/files/ramuda.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6858/8194/files/lothric_knight_long_spear.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/909040323.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9956/9829/files/74611949724.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4041/5644/files/49482836813.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_off000062ae.bin
f384bdcfda980a05e9c181c6e2d5aa74c631b6011934a433ca92a914e896a799
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x62AE 5448 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007524.bin
0f20dd9fe2aaba174bebf9dce230f9b2c3cb501ec64b78c292589ca21921cc41
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7524 10272 bytes