Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b2455b678bb0d8be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.4 KB Created: 2020-08-02 16:05:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5537000653079dca4d2400063965a0f0 SHA-1: 59bf3d40d379ed1ebb84df0b70a2174d28d4c527 SHA-256: b2455b678bb0d8be485fc49a4f13116322aa8db8d707bfbd7faa22cfbe393e8f
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious due to a critical heuristic firing for a PDF redirector link, which points to `https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=aayiram+kannumai+lyrics`. Additionally, another critical heuristic detected a PDF link farm, with numerous links pointing to Shopify domains, likely as a means to distribute malicious content or host phishing pages. The document body contains the text 'Aayiram kannumai lyrics' and references wkhtmltopdf, suggesting a lure document possibly related to song lyrics to mask the malicious redirection. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=aayiram+kannumai+lyrics
    • http://files.abergelebowlingclub.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681294/6257533.pdf
    • http://files.thehappyhedon.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813846/04887a3.pdf
    • http://files.oakdalestampede.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131378899/c4db35b3a3.pdf
    • http://files.stmoritzlodge.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482892/2d6914538.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6621/3031/files/75285527109.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6280/3097/files/bikini_body_guide_2._0.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0521/3854/files/50775835339.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3587/5745/files/gutamapesuvo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3503/1712/files/guxofegexurajijepiroka.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6340/2905/files/wosoxibanogidexez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2611/0885/files/sirep.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9222/9787/files/fepejekilidivarovetadagef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3126/3394/files/kovifofotenorajufuwegud.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3239/5426/files/lugifuzokefupori.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6470/4665/files/kibetawavijafeguw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8933/0330/files/engineering_economic_analysis_newnan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5554/6517/files/24611544914.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_off00004ab3.bin
6625aa89c644963194b60ab64052add9c1ce7e4350a2f769e63c8aa822bacac2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4AB3 5100 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005c04.bin
b9bb536169e286afcccd6d82cd00c8ca6c60017721ed5815363d1d6fd0aff118
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C04 10328 bytes