Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 95b3c4bafc2a2315…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.8 KB Created: 2020-08-10 10:25:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4b514041338e75b6bbff25271ae2f6e0 SHA-1: 81e966784c64a58150873369759512f407e8dcc1 SHA-256: 95b3c4bafc2a2315f5c646d9909dfc8c53279e233344018429a715bed12928a2
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, which points to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=compound+probability+worksheets+7th+grade+pdf'. This URL is presented within the document body, disguised as a link to educational material. The file also contains a large number of external PDF links, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. No scripts were extracted, and the document body itself is largely obfuscated binary data with some embedded URLs.

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=compound+probability+worksheets+7th+grade+pdf
    • http://files.southcentralgunclub.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814402/tasora.pdf
    • http://files.lewisandclarkriverboat.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131382092/lurujojud.pdf
    • http://files.stjudeparishgobles.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776602/tolegozolifojanur.pdf
    • http://files.triadchialpha.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454255/799652.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4227/4454/files/50849335087.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3463/9522/files/adverse_effects_of_vaccines.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6447/5299/files/nuboxeja.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6962/6781/files/mavuw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3699/9842/files/15607490297.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3033/2060/files/fisupiganoja.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9682/6273/files/bejifilesasadafezisumu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8413/6086/files/69227978482.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4190/5057/files/drawing_a_heart_opengl.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1754/3588/files/gosifuv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8016/3232/files/educacin_y_neoliberalismo_en_mxico_jaime_ornelas_delgado.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5107/4214/files/32303101853.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7092/2655/files/zikebokebu.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_off00005110.bin
d5515f8e9dedb7228de5b1ba92dcb362cadb6d6b78bbf8780f4f0e00d1a3f918
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5110 5840 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000064dc.bin
40b424d0cb96d015acdf03a625ee80d74a612523ae7d9433a50b7bcc2d4bec9f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x64DC 10412 bytes