Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 948c6ad22ae2a916…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.9 KB Created: 2020-08-25 22:00:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3fdb85930cff4b6cbc3ee4048994912b SHA-1: 06cbae6dc14b2810887cc871aa8045e557984ac2 SHA-256: 948c6ad22ae2a916b23477ad2ef6e61a98819edd1dd725656e68aeb016ff6d6e
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external sites, a technique often used for SEO poisoning or to redirect users to malicious content. One critical heuristic firing indicates a direct link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=happier+tal+ben+shahar+pdf+free+download', which is also flagged as a malicious redirector. This suggests the primary goal is to lure users to a malicious site under the guise of a free download.

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=happier+tal+ben+shahar+pdf+free+download
    • http://rekegu.lakeforesteyecare.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813784/6726882.pdf
    • http://xetivuvo.ahhs2020.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814328/6924901.pdf
    • http://files.trinitycommunitygroup.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739916/f2ba0.pdf
    • http://bemoz.dontlookdowntheatre.ca/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776078/28e761d3f0.pdf
    • http://files.andrewbartley.ca/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453278/wowodu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3032/2071/files/advanced_cardiovascular_life_support_acls.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1746/9080/files/63514721252.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/9579/1518/files/49942781321.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1057/1940/files/buvevegeradukogemazam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5372/5334/files/list_of_recent_mergers_and_acquisitions_in_zimbabwe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9938/2170/files/sibumubotobit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5982/2244/files/67272486054.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2910/0701/files/68968076569.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2950/2874/files/the_game_the_game.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4977/7312/files/3410174985.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006a29.bin
664830e7b108616a5f5fc3a03a0a70b9dc8b0e8be58c884449789d834def7ba5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A29 5112 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007b78.bin
74041f19d2de7ab8b6dac18c478dea1833d51dc693657c63cf0249a5c1a1ec1e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B78 10096 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009e4f.bin
e6d9021675d0d5757d7cc94b1ab24e42200d1507cad2986ba6eda9a0b14d2703
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9E4F 16324 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0000b3fb.bin
1062cd8ddf90f4344fa193b395386d5669df1a952e5759311ca261a71931f361
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB3FB 4324 bytes