Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8dfc6bdcd137570d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.4 KB Created: 2020-07-25 02:16:48 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 89d0d1e55fc89bf815833800546b8b62 SHA-1: 2af60905081df3a0b7ea24a6937fec80b26b0544 SHA-256: 8dfc6bdcd137570df4ee0a0ac7dfd55109b51a83479e7b0268704ff9922be21d
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a lure for a 'Quorum report buzz' and embeds a mass of external links, including one to a known malicious redirector. The heuristic 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' indicates that the link at https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=quorum+report+buzz is part of a malicious redirector infrastructure. The 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' heuristic indicates the document is designed to host numerous external links, likely for SEO manipulation or to distribute malicious content. The 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' heuristic further suggests a phishing or scam context.

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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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=quorum+report+buzz
    • http://files.spectaclesdirectedinburgh.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383377/9427869.pdf
    • http://files.diedrabenoit.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740423/6223907.pdf
    • http://files.grandmaceilshouse.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408529/92347f03614c5.pdf
    • http://files.lakeridgedance.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163832/jedew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopi
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4306/1913/files/datopowazupavisefize.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5772/6118/files/suriwafada.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9422/8630/files/13540545454.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3518/1724/files/bumefenikoberopelijogas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8470/7992/files/direlo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/gomejalubewetilukifij.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9557/2126/files/vukuroxej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3349/2641/files/vukobifo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4371/5229/files/43255899237.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7678/0181/files/24507730713.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8543/6830/files/fedafame.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_off00007525.bin
c562b9b53d3ecab21e803b4aa8cd37f0981160e36632176a5ce30d971bf781fd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7525 4524 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008485.bin
228dbae4ab55ba7fa73dceba64607fc0f53ca31c08aa8d4a178c2ecb3107f62d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8485 10596 bytes