Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aaad314c4300c413…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.7 KB Created: 2020-08-24 08:16:30 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4e0da22e35cd810c7b0e3edf5da81014 SHA-1: 84d1a7ca05c9252521c237dc7a8d7ccaf7e5ddcf SHA-256: aaad314c4300c4136ded697931672bb0aca1f559088bb04709cb24fe95d8f86e
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=argus+camera+manual', suggesting a lure related to an Argus camera manual. Additionally, the PDF exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded links pointing to external resources, many hosted on Shopify. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which is likely used to funnel victims to a malicious site.

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=argus+camera+manual
    • http://nogetora.firstpressiloam.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682883/dezanosigexebe.pdf
    • http://files.fpblair.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814476/a9d3ef2.pdf
    • http://kidafoje.dralexischesney.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814742/gikek.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4877/8400/files/jelufetimajesubododigigip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8068/6495/files/perceived_behavioral_control.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7026/7291/files/zumedutipebogesovepije.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3482/9223/files/zawuvanulidazebubotugu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5981/3279/files/tufodivivi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4416/7064/files/employment_act_australia.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6128/8868/files/marazirexisoje.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8611/9079/files/85521743616.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3830/0568/files/73646649079.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4334/0956/files/45298853315.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/nijudesiko.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0805/6740/files/kisosikafibasiperetev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1901/0201/files/rusinijakatozevasew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6747/4087/files/razer_megalodon_7._1_driver.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_off00007d05.bin
ab1127c6c8206add5a9fda9b962a74d8e9f68921aa38de3e5a1404c5873f8c51
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D05 5108 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008e48.bin
61ad30212eed71fe9fe4502e1915d8d46ef2adc12787f7eb39ac93f16719471f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8E48 10444 bytes