Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a9722053e7c85d06…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.7 KB Created: 2020-08-01 16:41:58 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 49063888d99f7d4ab273e8eb3ab6ab97 SHA-1: 692e6b4bf766e18df2f26c9dd05ffa3f7dbbd059 SHA-256: a9722053e7c85d06109e19c0415db3cc532537657b637cc979e360e30bebf4eb
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs, and one critical link to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.ru'. This indicates a link farm or redirection tactic to obscure the final malicious destination. The document body contains the string 'Silk scarf pixelmon' and the URL 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=silk+scarf+pixelmon', suggesting a lure related to this topic to drive traffic to the malicious redirector.

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=silk+scarf+pixelmon
    • http://files.featherweightaltimeters.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813458/siziwupezegukivosi.pdf
    • http://files.movingtosantodomingo.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438111/vipabawazeg_leneduxu_safamuk_jebita.pdf
    • http://files.sunstarnurseries.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813860/7913496.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5470/3526/files/pesinu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/zipepatijexozuzazes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8473/2829/files/vojonogudi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5504/6037/files/talagagolonotinomatezoko.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1483/1780/files/19043616348.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4887/6697/files/xovixil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0736/0667/files/94276273699.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6914/5241/files/23166863443.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5639/0559/files/nepuginugake.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9095/8749/files/48969474827.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1818/2041/files/neopets_food_club_bets.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9715/3943/files/kikudowidupe.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_off00006e4a.bin
eb6bf95735911d607e9ce1302d5676bf10758cee04495f898d7714c069405bd0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E4A 6416 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008436.bin
d091ab637082de890182540250635ee7b5a23e3faaaf723281905f109f222f58
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8436 5396 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009689.bin
3c545ca4e19a0a031febc511e88102d32aac4256ad6c4038f5f691d3e0f195d8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9689 9868 bytes