Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ced0bc34c14e9ff2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.6 KB Created: 2020-08-06 10:37:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ac7fcae184d6ffa43dc91937cf419b96 SHA-1: 2d02eb0174a13c587a627a8aaf33123ff8080f0d SHA-256: ced0bc34c14e9ff2e641628acee7fb6a744b0cf8b5228522b5d57e964f62767b
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one critical heuristic identifying a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body text and embedded links suggest a lure for downloading a PDF to Word converter, which is a common social engineering tactic. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=pdf+to+word+download+program, which is likely used to redirect users to further malicious content. The presence of many Shopify links, while some are benign, is part of a link farm strategy to improve SEO for malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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=pdf+to+word+download+program
    • http://files.kilocharlieshootingrange.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131408439/bivijefarisag.pdf
    • http://files.loveshantea.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681479/2689961.pdf
    • http://files.theartsinguthrie.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131857758/cee778aa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8180/8549/files/jobogu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6043/6887/files/63228385392.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9902/1717/files/70169707178.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8235/7663/files/cfa_level_1_mock_exam.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6504/8214/files/fundamentals_of_engineering_electromagnetics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6151/0293/files/46885538365.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9028/8535/files/64589118112.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2093/3528/files/rogavobaxomutobaw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3467/3305/files/zutef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3636/7265/files/boas_mathematical_methods_solutions.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/57790570823.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6812/9431/files/89738475703.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1410/2950/files/caterpillar_forklift_parts_manual.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_off00006c51.bin
9d96d219dc08c99051b0e521c33b75d69bc6019c9a2bcf6f6e725b4a8cc1d56f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C51 5276 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007e4a.bin
b7ab543f47fe48cfffc5bf4387677214274d8442099d2b9ea4f26d2a668e3663
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E4A 10492 bytes