Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0ec60596f83f95f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.3 KB Created: 2020-08-18 21:43:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 89ed92a2836326d98f4ddb21e344419e SHA-1: 837407fa8a8c0119c5b1e6e2f663cda1689f9c3a SHA-256: d0ec60596f83f95faabcc1b17cdd14da8b6286c4115a97aa7c3bdc7ec58cb534
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file exhibits characteristics of a link farm, containing numerous embedded URLs pointing to external PDF documents. One of these URLs, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=laminate+sheets+for+walls', is flagged as a malicious redirector. This suggests the document's primary purpose is to lure users through these links, potentially leading them to malicious content or phishing sites. The presence of many Shopify-hosted PDFs further supports the link farm hypothesis.

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=laminate+sheets+for+walls
    • http://files.playtherapyonlinetraining.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776267/e653801e0455.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7592/0282/files/27585009056.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7896/5656/files/9432277376.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0281/3849/files/36691814332.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4828/7912/files/well_of_eternity.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8026/9477/files/36136909718.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8789/6482/files/befozexelupatami.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5298/8566/files/powomesijopema.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7709/8910/files/33474731151.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0665/6666/files/ditukinukufarasaxo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9268/0611/files/dajepivuxapawisotun.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6137/1290/files/35064087039.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0491/2031/files/badminton_score_sheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4430/7098/files/zivaregukukibegapefis.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_off0000621c.bin
7c4aa195dd3c54bbf68d08c72d8ac1ea76ba1be5802b419eec2ffff884e7fc98
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x621C 5040 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007329.bin
e73f16e07375d0402849364e4f9540a11befe4b047a9662406f91076afcadfa4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7329 13136 bytes