Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c178ce118f817836…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.0 KB Created: 2020-08-09 23:27:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 24766cb83afdad361125b8c72dedc563 SHA-1: 989ed6e36d07b4b6712e7c886a545b75de6c961a SHA-256: c178ce118f817836b3476105c7e996a36635cbd663ed4237194ddbb355fc1c45
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to `ttraff.ru`. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous external links, many hosted on `cdn.shopify.com` but some on other suspicious domains. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL. The presence of a download button lure further supports a malicious intent to trick the user into navigating to the malicious link.

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=penguin+reader+level+3+pdf+download
    • http://files.stevedurow.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738550/ccb7e9.pdf
    • http://files.geriatricsuamsrioa.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383384/eb518cf.pdf
    • http://files.jdeducation.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606630/424528.pdf
    • http://files.thenorthwoodsnews.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438190/dubuju.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3485/9941/files/28785283314.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4690/3709/files/pafenavavojopabijuze.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9350/8771/files/70885605431.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5625/9491/files/93182899538.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9663/6580/files/jumuxutu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2829/7381/files/league_of_legends_not_opening_mac.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5196/6873/files/3046572499.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6970/2306/files/42782400679.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6917/8017/files/vacuna_antineumoccica.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5935/5558/files/monthly_attendance_register_format_for_employees.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_off00004f37.bin
bb079e52f20d04782e6b74cca6daf2ffae21beb543aa54af5b81506ec8154730
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4F37 6044 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000063e6.bin
61a0f70e6e53e0a8c6d79c86aaec89615cd50f887d773c6632d3962cb05089bc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63E6 5152 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00007586.bin
ee2139dff0ef5ab59657d6e0a5a2643c2efe87ce10cf55e24526302d8aad2b31
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7586 10240 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off000098ad.bin
0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x98AD 4324 bytes