Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd408037c1acb10b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.4 KB Created: 2020-08-08 14:06:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3c98ba618cae4f9cbef5d1e8a29e8bdd SHA-1: b4269318fe0b0eecf84152f2ab9ece0c8aea5338 SHA-256: cd408037c1acb10b39734baa69e67e1b7fbdfa26bee216c6f177b3709c39fadd
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=albumin+transfusion+pdf'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded links, including one to 'https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9206/6975/files/minecraft_1._14._2_mods.pdf'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL, reinforcing the malicious intent.

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=albumin+transfusion+pdf
    • http://files.arunabhasengupta.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682716/1359087.pdf
    • http://files.marybethrobbins.space/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637606/nubedazitanenig.pdf
    • http://files.dogeventinfo.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739864/xafogi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9206/6975/files/minecraft_1._14._2_mods.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7061/1871/files/97216648998.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3066/6651/files/telugu_calendar_2020_with_festivals_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9222/0840/files/fuwiloku.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0092/2261/files/11277817751.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0658/1147/files/52900510633.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9026/4742/files/65066177513.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3526/3138/files/59197674916.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5308/0991/files/8050196168.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7341/4055/files/64010165024.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8044/1238/files/agenda_21_italiano.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7885/2507/files/11982648742.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_off00009256.bin
0f142222e30e39add5ef22e95cc3421b3f6a4c0201076e810e336f685016ce36
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9256 5316 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a44a.bin
d85e5dda96a408b1681da40d03f2bfe725f846f66ccae1ff9a1f32a9fc8bbf6b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA44A 10700 bytes