Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dcdac776fde3bce3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.9 KB Created: 2020-07-28 03:37:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 6d2604be958bf96b8a693dc4946ac20d SHA-1: d98bc59d8520c3417d2165f7f9298576376e0d1c SHA-256: dcdac776fde3bce3987792b5071704ba048db4de5c41c7296caede51454148e1
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains a link farm designed to obscure malicious redirector infrastructure, specifically linking to 'ttraff.ru' with a lure related to 'Adobe office suite free'. This indicates a phishing or scam attempt to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of multiple embedded PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, further supports the link farm tactic. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct payload execution.

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=adobe+office+suite+free
    • http://files.ataraxiapestsolutions.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682295/f12f0c.pdf
    • http://files.beautifulworldandme.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740017/xagijijawezev_duwipitovosex.pdf
    • http://files.polarlondon.co.uk/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712369/soliribufap_dipakevufu_fagazuzi_kimawibowul.pdf
    • http://files.tuliptreatments.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740665/nidonuj_kadim.pdf
    • http://files.apellasolutions.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814042/7011430.pdf
    • http://files.beautifulworldandme.com/up
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6314/8695/files/1365162381.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0638/5573/files/78054070086.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6616/2341/files/xonitiletazipe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/3651/7286/files/34365073460.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6859/6117/files/munupagujotodarejalim.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1111/3123/files/31281086941.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5129/3599/files/87540616673.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4571/6129/files/50845689154.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8072/0294/files/70549167344.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_off00005734.bin
d3317e04f15f2cebd4c121563497a7674954b7fb14190b1168a7eafb57b626fd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5734 4680 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006730.bin
d5ff6d9a0aa3e7de378f38533502610c1801b44f246545953c2505ebfa9c568d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6730 10440 bytes