Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 917923302b44f98b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

70.5 KB Created: 2020-08-09 03:55:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9388fe37654afe2ff3e80a0d7cf96d7e SHA-1: c01b816328c349b026935e85a8fefe2b93f75c29 SHA-256: 917923302b44f98b33ab80167dd4bdaabb1a206b4a5ebf3aff6d9d4e801cad42
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on Shopify. One of these links, https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=types+of+metal+casting+process+pdf, is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, suggesting the primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious infrastructure. The file was generated using wkhtmltopdf, a common tool for creating PDFs from web content, which aligns with the link farm strategy.

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=types+of+metal+casting+process+pdf
    • http://files.imprintmarketing.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695388/ranosikanurar.pdf
    • http://files.jeromesbistro.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437862/2892613.pdf
    • http://files.vetmedtrail.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775698/xeriwuluwevujim-gisoxoxisokeze-wugomefinozogo-wewijegajekoli.pdf
    • http://rerepis.youarethesalt.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681670/pejelifofakin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5254/7739/files/20552568088.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8150/4670/files/46487730539.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/1381/2903/files/john_deere_214_parts_diagram.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6418/0390/files/71418521454.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9547/2794/files/product_business_plan_examples.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0437/7757/files/best_apologetics_books.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1459/4464/files/company_presentation_sample.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0832/7829/files/zoxutapevuzuz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4541/9173/files/safiduzegafo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4288/2215/files/fegasabatexaguwedo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6412/1752/files/nuderuvokolamozegi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9980/6113/files/pioneer_sp-_pk52fs.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3477/1610/files/acronis_bootable_media.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_off0000d6c4.bin
600a36ca2df195e4bdc43c90c099da90ce74d004df84579573f1a7bcff2b82e9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD6C4 5524 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000e97c.bin
d228b82d61f059f718f33f9a2fe82038a0e59c4f4f426ad952e61e7cede4bf93
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE97C 10304 bytes