Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 91b271d5d229ecb8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.2 KB Created: 2020-08-06 18:57:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 28aa2f069f7d1b5136aa0969e801e55c SHA-1: 4d1bb59eb27ed99913cab33c747a6245f9bafec0 SHA-256: 91b271d5d229ecb862bc32378e371f1a6ae8b408b05abcb1e02f14cd464ca017
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to ttraff.ru. This URL is presented to the user as a download for 'quantitative data analysis tools pdf'. The file also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting PDF files. While some Shopify links are benign, the primary redirector is malicious. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and embedded links strongly suggest a phishing or redirection attempt to malicious infrastructure.

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=quantitative+data+analysis+tools+pdf
    • http://files.keepmaryoutofthekitchen.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437474/4fcbeb3.pdf
    • http://files.pbssm.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453990/dopogirokizas.pdf
    • http://files.gcvaa.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382030/7264153.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9249/8850/files/metal_horn_emoji.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5865/8469/files/66280672014.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3289/3857/files/zanabiruxirarip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5697/1432/files/star_wars_battle_front_2_cheats_ps2.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2285/9944/files/59736573752.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2499/0887/files/25684380706.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/1087/2728/files/advanced_financial_accounting_10th_edition_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2529/9606/files/40265886467.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5021/3274/files/gaximolijenadexo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0744/1053/files/pamipiwagufa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8417/5773/files/birsen_yaynevi_yap_statii.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1510/0826/files/sound_of_silence_mp3.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/talijofazejodo.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_off00006b1e.bin
dd5354b411f52bb46377a29491cc33cfe2d075d7c05dd8094807061c43b88140
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B1E 5164 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007cd3.bin
eb28f5dcf28f9d36380d2df6f1ac9a075c107afab1d7909dea24df55bc3aa8cb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CD3 10116 bytes