Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d6aa85d7a35bf85e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.4 KB Created: 2020-08-07 14:27:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 62d8abd78a12d2fd589caf2928a09d5e SHA-1: 8917c71d7b300c11d212827305301b01848cdc7f SHA-256: d6aa85d7a35bf85e7478a27d46684b86134c01c6e1327b1f8199c4a7f5e4755d
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a mass external link farm, with numerous links pointing to various PDF files hosted on external domains. One of the primary links, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=national+building+information+modeling+standard+pdf', is identified as a malicious redirector. This suggests the document's purpose is to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, likely for further exploitation or phishing. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, but the presence of the malicious redirector and the link farm strongly indicate a 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=national+building+information+modeling+standard+pdf
    • http://files.jeffreyvbohlsculpture.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775953/4466323.pdf
    • http://files.paulcyon.me/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407958/zakodobuje_gulubadevaxo_jusan_taxemujit.pdf
    • http://vowitumen.blogoftheo.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163635/62398ec6feb84b3.pdf
    • http://files.burnsidecenter.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969080/jikamupivazuluges.pdf
    • http://files.heffernanfoodconsultant.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438329/xupoved-rinojotegun.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2117/2897/files/17614436907.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4275/7029/files/98781703314.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2327/7973/files/zibigozebimeke.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4218/6150/files/puvonevojuwibejulede.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0381/3781/files/xinivak.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/7873/3224/files/sharad_upadhye_rashichakra.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1011/2163/files/pugixurone.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5127/0823/files/lolesolemi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9553/1424/files/5876428438.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8346/3832/files/zevugibimefowerepa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6396/7906/files/pdf_agama_islam_kelas_xii_kurikulum_2020.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_off00005a82.bin
2d91aa2675a8b6d2da0f931cd3547ab3dec3425916c8b460e78f890a75f3faae
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A82 5472 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006d0b.bin
dbd177e925fcd06f4046635a12e43a9e8b1ed05325e875d7624545453601de84
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D0B 10944 bytes