Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 992b99fd57b59584…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.4 KB Created: 2020-08-07 19:53:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5769c25b26ec1bef916b1850ad691853 SHA-1: 6358fdc8e8900130fcaafdd3a061137894cdae55 SHA-256: 992b99fd57b59584daeef669b37e6ea9611b373bc8beead0c901df8a585478a7
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to scholarship applications and the malicious URL. The PDF also contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO manipulation tactic to distribute the malicious content. The primary malicious URL is 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=university+scholarship+application+letter+sample+pdf'.

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=university+scholarship+application+letter+sample+pdf
    • http://files.usauwrwomen.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380438/kusaxizudutitu.pdf
    • http://files.muse-crew.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740214/896f81191.pdf
    • http://files.innovationsquareboston.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695492/5bbdf41.pdf
    • http://files.ketchikanwhales.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/551949.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2060/7900/files/90711578586.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3613/7882/files/29630335043.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8105/6935/files/15967365007.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3907/1130/files/pdf_attachment_in_mailchimp.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1806/7876/files/merusirixiguloju.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0935/9520/files/skyline_pigeon_lyrics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0032/3481/files/peminisixosadodesizomijow.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7133/2767/files/litujekana.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1916/6105/files/nedawurewugelofedur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5331/8298/files/vozuvet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3993/2064/files/teruweno.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2223/8374/files/dubiru.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006bba.bin
09ad514a28ac97842c589992c60925809f865b8f129c77a4e2b97ea3ed2e9f6d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6BBA 5336 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007db8.bin
c2c8117e692f6308d98d3975e05ff5f80ea62b482dccac66376e59cde73de11a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7DB8 10784 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000a268.bin
0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA268 4324 bytes