Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 db16cb0e01becd59…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.5 KB Created: 2020-08-16 17:51:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3edcb7b691b455bde45c25cb850b25e7 SHA-1: 6fcb429a414d2be0889914e662a30f6e8cc6f7b2 SHA-256: db16cb0e01becd5972a87818a4231db5d958b635865a27696d578615dbf3f5a7
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external PDF files hosted on various domains, including a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.ru'. This suggests a link farm or redirection tactic to obscure the final malicious destination. The document body itself contains garbled text but also includes the malicious URL and several benign-looking Shopify URLs, indicating a potential lure or spam campaign. No scripts were extracted, but the heuristic firings strongly indicate a malicious redirection attempt.

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=banaras+wala+remix
    • http://fidonegan.segolilyschool.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683188/gazojoxej-veluginika-nixomude.pdf
    • http://xonaterod.trendsterrabella.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637814/tulakawet.pdf
    • http://fiwufegi.amishpoly.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070331/muvajugowiz_nizim_gaxuteg.pdf
    • http://jimimupup.bh365project.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606346/9294074.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6758/8252/files/zezaleparasotuto.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9353/2573/files/example_of_formal_and_informal_letter_pdf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2964/0854/files/pretty_ricky_bluestars_album.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6934/8763/files/princeton_review_mcat_physics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/xigorekotat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/64630415929.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8954/2809/files/nunafavewazelaresewax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7956/5465/files/simple_english_short_story.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4116/9303/files/72709543779.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0858/7933/files/zirurujokejedojizarunuf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7103/6823/files/pipew.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005bab.bin
bfc4410fbccf71534da10c78dd82c1fa50e0518cd9868c914c8491fa1d1844ee
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5BAB 5040 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006cc3.bin
3f0828ce8539d6704c3c5c487418eae6389b94b93c39031e834bee5c0f95218b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6CC3 1712 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00007547.bin
9eef0e51e656f31f60d9fe9d82878a98fe30372123215f7391f3e4983c67049c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7547 14836 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0000a3c4.bin
5e069c651af388c9d1c46793672a95033926ecea19c95ad36686e36c52502565
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA3C4 4328 bytes