Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d1ef9e978751bf4e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.3 KB Created: 2020-08-04 17:18:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 715312dbe3ee6f8e2cc42f641d6d5edf SHA-1: 6b72f770b55c2d057d489fdaddcbb6becd7b3a5d SHA-256: d1ef9e978751bf4e2deaed115024eb4ec942fd2ed33feafe0afdbaccfe4537fb
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links, a technique often used in SEO spam or phishing campaigns. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, specifically 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=counselling+psychology+a+textbook+for+study+and+practice+pdf'. This suggests the document is designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, likely for further exploitation or credential harvesting. The presence of many external links, including to Shopify domains, indicates a link farm strategy to improve search engine ranking for malicious content.

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=counselling+psychology+a+textbook+for+study+and+practice+pdf
    • http://files.woodlandsfrenchies.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383553/buvomagedax_dopiriveluk.pdf
    • http://fikoka.infinitely-natural.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164312/c3ab280ac299076.pdf
    • http://files.pointblankdesignstudio.co.za/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813818/kixasizo.pdf
    • http://files.makingagoodlifebetter.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607544/2d88ef7b73a.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9930/6648/files/35281637405.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9309/8660/files/remafunijonisakat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8450/5498/files/juvukoletadiwak.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1586/2434/files/17689976041.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5259/6374/files/nevukamowuzebejelezu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7399/3890/files/pimalovow.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0820/4704/files/92592129567.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6761/3087/files/stock_market_lessons_for_beginners.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5928/0022/files/12966480523.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8090/8951/files/43029527909.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2270/4030/files/37693014018.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1887/8114/files/classical_mechanics_taylor_solutions_manual_free.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_off00006644.bin
a9abee9122177ef8f8ec59e1a834872963ececbbb144b35b9e283fc6add75231
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6644 5696 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000079a8.bin
e48898c2426961413691adabe7381c4052832b88831f036e0b2fbfb73f91cc68
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79A8 10656 bytes