Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c74d96b9dcf1f0c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.5 KB Created: 2020-08-11 06:52:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 61b517afa98cd080066d6c0663194308 SHA-1: 6dd6ef48976e08208eb2231be0f9ed83627becfd SHA-256: c74d96b9dcf1f0c04f272a969aca019698d4cf2aa9ebc217b0f3df1d7e128af9
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files hosted on various domains, including Shopify. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=new+headway+plus+beginner+student+s+book+pdf'. This suggests the document is part of a link farm or SEO poisoning scheme designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure. The document body contains garbled text but also includes the suspicious URL and metadata indicating it was generated by wkhtmltopdf.

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=new+headway+plus+beginner+student+s+book+pdf
    • http://limuba.fantabular.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131482952/140221.pdf
    • http://files.rockwoodtennis.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453530/pudedas-lavani-nuzizukowe-jibikedab.pdf
    • http://files.helenmelbourne.ca/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379820/791e330.pdf
    • http://files.flygirrl.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738619/728513.pdf
    • http://files.childrenofthekingdom.net/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164431/dedajelefewite.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9565/2504/files/48743081982.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6278/7237/files/18103973033.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2536/6165/files/56753144579.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4609/2445/files/craftsman_table_saw_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/7377/7319/files/domain_driven_design_reference.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/79086372433.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/9850/0259/files/ansiedad_y_depresion_en_nios.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8691/3442/files/degibedujebejuzoremenoja.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1338/1028/files/xafepafixufig.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1801/9235/files/80962969897.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5042/6787/files/adjetivos_posesivos_en_ingles_ejercicios_para_imprimir.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5327/7589/files/catalogo_jequiti_07_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6559/7342/files/logical_reasoning_puzzles_with_answers.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/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/04

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005a51.bin
d140c5070edba3b088998b9228ebc79afdf6dffc770103c966165642c05aeaaf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A51 5668 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006daa.bin
c594155d8649aa426c5008fa4f23a6a2abe5d561a5b23f67bd6cffc6d378b437
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6DAA 10472 bytes