Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae1fc53e95ce608d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.9 KB Created: 2020-08-23 05:58:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d5c6cc026a8a20ad9238afb3a7f220ae SHA-1: aac0258dd64995b9569bf89ae7aa2b565cb55c6e SHA-256: ae1fc53e95ce608dc69fabe38f62adfe4e7d83a5b54cd74ef3565c8b0ff079f4
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm and a malicious redirector, indicating a lure to download potentially malicious content. The heuristic PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK specifically flags the URL https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=audio+video+joiner+for+pc as malicious. The presence of a visual download button further supports the social engineering aspect of this attack. No scripts were extracted, limiting further analysis of the payload.

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=audio+video+joiner+for+pc
    • http://files.shupesontheboardwalk.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775229/d87e3a2f6ff0e.pdf
    • http://files.thekissroom.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452867/72e2c29979fa.pdf
    • http://reval.friendsofhawaiianislands.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874050/musujixofonube.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0465/0578/7542/files/magic_tricks_with_playing_cards.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/15138334831.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9162/4097/files/62257109320.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2571/0750/files/86421529557.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/baludugosutagaxoreforodul.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6337/8081/files/biviluxon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9017/3349/files/rewamukema.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0460/3766/3903/files/59422668958.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8360/3876/files/alter_ego_plus_3_gratis.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_off00005f29.bin
f55a2e5dfed0cb6069ff32e1b1bd4d3c188caca99659bfb86b339f78fb4dfe25
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F29 4852 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006fc4.bin
cb7b5081462e90c24aa128db0d6613f5a6d13aac2205905964c1f87593912911
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6FC4 10404 bytes