Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 91413e9c4830bcb0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.0 KB Created: 2020-08-06 10:41:28 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 6cec9db94249a634a3e8f007c8e940e9 SHA-1: 63aebf0e7bae53e9136aa7821a051fdefdff9b7e SHA-256: 91413e9c4830bcb094fde2b0af033c6e51a4e55ef1f6d5fcdf039b32faccf0ab
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to `https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=facebook+advertising+strategy+pdf`. This indicates the document is designed to trick users into visiting a malicious site, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of numerous other external PDF links, many hosted on `cdn.shopify.com`, suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to obscure the malicious intent. No scripts were extracted, and the document body is heavily obfuscated, but the primary attack vector is clearly the malicious redirector.

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=facebook+advertising+strategy+pdf
    • http://files.laurielotus.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856827/5448411.pdf
    • http://files.crimsonsoccer.us/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856430/22e30e2834.pdf
    • http://files.drjessicabc.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130968921/8218905.pdf
    • http://files.creativationevents.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437671/5999326.pdf
    • http://files.movingforwardglancingback.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070845/xivafojiduj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5652/8541/files/zokafixafovi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5689/6927/files/71940470752.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1905/7826/files/uppsc_sociology_syllabus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9014/0581/files/91100162508.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2216/3876/files/fadunafekamonaveruzexori.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9255/7467/files/xovavawiwazuxik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3251/8555/files/fulunukorumoretar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8027/8426/files/imagej_scale_bar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1020/3556/files/24125254090.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6275/4461/files/hobbit_fan_edit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/damegadunuje.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8502/8775/files/computer_architecture_book_free_download.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_off000087e2.bin
c5d633c9cd6dc095447e53e081ece9450979bc35c177616ed74be3dc04990f9b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x87E2 5612 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009b11.bin
bfcc4c69177d770d8e8ae548f708ad577f48662e17426c5f690e588c0a37ce64
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9B11 10676 bytes