Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c17469ef538310ae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.8 KB Created: 2020-08-12 00:22:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7d59271c6b9f5d3e7308116ca33e0358 SHA-1: 46e12603ec17bb35c78f97de851514b676b8138e SHA-256: c17469ef538310ae6b7830745f754d04a69f34d105b6e1635665e3a741115848
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The heuristic 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' indicates a mass external PDF link farm, suggesting an attempt to leverage SEO for malicious distribution. The presence of the URL 'https://ttraff.ru/wb?keyword=retrosynthesis%20organic%20chemistry%20pdf' further supports the malicious intent by pointing to a known redirector. The document body itself is heavily obfuscated and contains numerous URLs, reinforcing the link farm tactic.

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/wb?keyword=retrosynthesis%20organic%20chemistry%20pdf
    • http://files.ritchierockmcbride.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380569/9417293.pdf
    • http://files.reaganinmyownworld.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738614/f277a2dd.pdf
    • http://fegeki.stephaniemeredithart.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738524/c49d87.pdf
    • http://files.caloriekitchen.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871745/4514188.pdf
    • http://files.mariecharpentier.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483019/batipaxadas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6806/2872/files/makalah_peradaban_islam_pada_masa_dinasti_abbasiyah.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5800/3096/files/16774685134.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7399/3890/files/64061453416.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3311/6317/files/6253325955.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7758/0453/files/sorry_justin_bieber_lyrics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4582/1338/files/zakotesa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4077/6090/files/xivijojole.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7567/4014/files/bofuseretelokuxiwezofiz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0458/3318/files/10243631777.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2250/8454/files/22094856181.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3013/3406/files/39735875325.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1918/1978/files/descargar_biblia_de_estudio_diario_vivir.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_off0000740d.bin
ea0dfa0dccfa63e61d23744282feff6a297cf7e2a70cc8d343bc4fe4f120cf6f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x740D 5644 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008725.bin
3a459f9b5ef96b360605e4e9bd030d43f39b782404acf1a7b7562aa3289b1572
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8725 10336 bytes