Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7789d9292909a63…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.0 KB Created: 2020-08-10 09:07:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: cb666e5349c95eb2ca050fb2d5c7e644 SHA-1: 4e4d2b96dd303396d7f5af823a6b9a03dbcdf8f5 SHA-256: a7789d9292909a636e895a7a0d1d73a084f5a2b9942af38da67b1f64439bf73e
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF document contains a lure to install a browser extension, which is a common social engineering tactic. It also contains a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.ru, which is used to deliver further malicious content. The document body itself contains numerous links to external PDFs hosted on various domains, likely part of a link farm to improve search engine ranking for the lure content.

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • Browser extension / update installation lure high SE_BROWSER_INSTALL_LURE
    Document tells the user to install a browser extension, plugin, viewer, or browser update to view content — a common social-engineering path for credential theft and malware installation
  • 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=algorithms+4th+edition+by+sedgewick+and+wayne+pdf
    • http://kosupise.stridesports.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406717/3190948.pdf
    • http://files.jeffcolibraries.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381612/e283339.pdf
    • http://biluf.elkrapidsnews.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407995/zuzodinej-sewirilo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3725/9938/files/worifoluwi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9923/5228/files/6095511925.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1945/3095/files/jpg_to_app.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7375/7603/files/23828364788.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8198/2361/files/95367968473.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2578/3190/files/sonegowabe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2391/7478/files/wavozix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8124/4577/files/1000_ways_to_die_full_episodes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1075/2663/files/58875904882.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4511/0438/files/bekason.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1620/9059/files/81458337329.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6375/3369/files/13.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8678/2369/files/51383564443.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4024/2840/files/76489968659.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_off00006d5f.bin
b4b4486ed1ffaf8d56ee137db88548878e57b4c5903666f89f8caa26f15128bc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D5F 6044 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000081e9.bin
e30d3e983f7106ac1e527981b6735873c82ec7d3f88b4e3808604a10cb7eb7cd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x81E9 10696 bytes