Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a28ccc00eafafc1b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.4 KB Created: 2020-08-23 06:55:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 48715cdfa85d6d2185f5831a298dbc6c SHA-1: 2bc0b6eb09002f5275623787101e2df54b1dc7f9 SHA-256: a28ccc00eafafc1bc91179a51514a568b4c6a6917520d44873e00c68bf157745
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links, with a critical heuristic identifying a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=amaryllis+flower+information+in+english'. Another critical heuristic indicates a PDF link farm, with 'https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2660/4447/files/21071984259.pdf' being the first identified URL. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains these URLs, suggesting a lure to external malicious content.

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=amaryllis+flower+information+in+english
    • http://podij.swimrunning.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407668/xupesuvadod.pdf
    • http://files.camayacoastbeachproperties.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871780/2060245.pdf
    • http://rasok.whldesign.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775195/d105212.pdf
    • http://fapujuso.silverfernflag.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637316/boranafagot.pdf
    • http://files.definir.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775712/vatuzasumop_naxagaxukiziz_pubetaze.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2660/4447/files/21071984259.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6782/4533/files/puzovigurirasiwerozesuri.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/69651331918.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9014/0581/files/22318633839.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/zenafepejeviwasi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6783/4517/files/corpus_linguistics_and_statistics_with_r.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/8993/6798/files/botanics_brightening_face_sheet_mask.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8125/2507/files/witizunexilesosone.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2920/8986/files/29610261390.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2353/1158/files/bgp_protocol_explained.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2512/9894/files/28596697347.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_off0000639c.bin
039b628e9d7ce52af3f6056737f7f232afe4a0c145ac5971268ab61dc2ed64f5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x639C 5364 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000075c5.bin
ad67cb9f8c71ceb21a5ad0da11a3d9056c59701244690ebff57c927e05f1b83d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75C5 11448 bytes