Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a14d80f2323cf716…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.7 KB Created: 2020-08-23 02:45:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 70920c7b117130c8269a46eb0bebda77 SHA-1: a79dd594e9aa204f130a53a9923fd65ee4bae5c7 SHA-256: a14d80f2323cf7163469a5ca6e4cb74ffd5177aabac4fda03dff24ba97d05f9f
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=xml+auto+format+notepad%252B%252B'. This URL is likely part of a phishing or scam campaign, attempting to lure users with a seemingly innocuous topic. The document also contains a PDF link farm heuristic, indicating a large number of outbound links, with the primary one being to a Shopify domain. The embedded document body text, though heavily corrupted, contains fragments of the malicious URL and benign-sounding filenames, further supporting the lure.

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=xml+auto+format+notepad%252B%252B
    • http://nejadaxal.herplanetearth.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303382/lemeganaze.pdf
    • http://files.apartment-serviced.net/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302995/045c0541cb844.pdf
    • http://files.ourcountryproperty.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378993/tamamilag-nuwixofokum.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3629/3785/files/gw2_cooking_guide_400-_500.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5430/0327/files/temoluvisurajotukup.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4005/5208/files/personal_statement_for_scholarship_for_masters.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6404/1365/files/www_notepad_yahoo_com.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8646/2628/files/81931079601.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1682/2692/files/minecraft_enchantments_list.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7148/0742/files/satumiledifezimawamajab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2522/6152/files/64695391513.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8769/7822/files/wetoji.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8318/5819/files/attitude_defined.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8791/2346/files/supow.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3319/8745/files/36280603543.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_off0000740b.bin
53459b223250d9d4c95c57f7610efdc857e0a6e484f14bbd6ec4c0309d6b13f5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x740B 4984 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000084de.bin
246569b5fd7226bd0ebf3c016de7ba0bf82e996896d660a08030b2af0a08efd3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x84DE 1936 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00008e1f.bin
2b6a93bc64bade0228d8eddd6219d7fe543684d86a4cf7f41eab82d6d584b0aa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8E1F 10720 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0000b2f2.bin
4f167947518ac243daa4da5672d895f52ddf1e516e2d3e7712be4c1fe2c13152
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2F2 16632 bytes