Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc73c71e0066825e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.3 KB Created: 2020-08-09 22:40:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4f46177d0f03ab86ffa6cebb20c9d6e8 SHA-1: c33251c56be276ecdee613761fa94b82ecb8d41b SHA-256: bc73c71e0066825eab8922783a26842ebdc4e7c6105a44fda534f55e45c7bad7
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains a large number of external links, many pointing to Shopify-hosted PDFs, which is indicative of a link farm or SEO spam campaign. One prominent link directs to 'ttraff.ru', a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=importance+of+fixed+asset+management+pdf', suggesting a lure related to asset management to entice clicks. The presence of multiple PDF links and a malicious redirector strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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=importance+of+fixed+asset+management+pdf
    • http://files.davidjohnlang.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776826/kitubi.pdf
    • http://files.tulibro915.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398504/lazularerir-lokogotulek-moduv.pdf
    • http://files.ontheroadarizona.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739951/676512500bf6d.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0230/6468/files/pudujepupikipigizufode.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1771/4334/files/supposed_former_infatuation_junkie.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1237/4174/files/80298685803.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8003/1135/files/66162993744.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4911/5029/files/gazijewizisalijixulelanar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6601/6412/files/gixuvoviwutijixoruguzomaw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1986/2179/files/33065479633.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1884/4322/files/67289301741.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1981/1490/files/antidoto_araa_violinista.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2021/4681/files/97705597320.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2668/5850/files/biology_chapter_1_class_11_notes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7959/8229/files/red_chin_osrs.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7975/3109/files/nefiwopukejibakegipa.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_off000071e6.bin
1e2dff8e0deed0b3e636371585f168079137bcd2136b1fed58798cc4832e8cc6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71E6 5448 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000845c.bin
729e245c87a9560b4e22a93e3c7d9b06ae163ca2bf029fef10ee219f8bd1aeae
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x845C 10484 bytes