Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc7f88128fc8beda…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.5 KB Created: 2020-08-12 18:14:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5c4707464e4afd2a52f9259beacb0595 SHA-1: dcefd3e1a2af9f7795d50ef9844e7c42cdfe5ede SHA-256: bc7f88128fc8beda263176386be2470b66834e0b1875a0a700dedbf4f97ad12e
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of links, many pointing to Shopify domains, but also includes a critical link to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.ru'. This suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning technique used to distribute malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=waste+recycling+methods+pdf', indicating the lure is related to waste recycling methods. The primary intent appears to be redirecting the user to malicious infrastructure.

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=waste+recycling+methods+pdf
    • http://wabisi.danielmartinezjr.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380429/36f8e4a2d3e4.pdf
    • http://gekik.joewoodmanwildlife.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131381679/b7c553343.pdf
    • http://files.miamiohpct.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739155/kamunowe.pdf
    • http://files.christopherwrightnyc.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606368/baxak.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8499/5991/files/nosoxesezewoteserotuz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3110/9540/files/selife.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4971/2806/files/35631900836.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7309/2246/files/brainstorming_web_graphic_organizer.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5156/4707/files/merit_amharic_english_dictionary.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2630/7480/files/pafikavef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4460/8932/files/jimi_hendrix_voodoo_child_mp3.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1442/2687/files/41723297706.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7175/7718/files/wijurow.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000680d.bin
11ab95fe0ad7883a7ed99b57b6bf8d852bfc7502df2cff573547558c0e958009
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x680D 5684 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007b39.bin
6ce3ed3d0cf168fbf74d6eb321148d5efc31cda11559831b77020f7d4c9f4c8c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B39 3740 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000086b3.bin
a60cd18d5bade1c1773b42b0db204f324afb9aaecf66101abe6add0b63463abd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x86B3 9768 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0000a86c.bin
5470a3376aeb3938d6dde37b9d29e8e347a0a66308d363d90549a05dfa3491c1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA86C 10316 bytes