Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dfbaae35b0eac677…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.9 KB Created: 2020-08-06 21:11:50 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 79e5fc7e33c6189bec8afade6fb20a81 SHA-1: 4de31f32acadbe22cf0f7f58ccead95e68751c0d SHA-256: dfbaae35b0eac677ea76e3962f99ef1a64b7d6feaf033db710109a5dd8efca79
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1200 Hardware Add-in T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service known for malicious activity. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=asia+map+physical+pdf' which is flagged as malicious. The presence of a link farm suggests an attempt to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content through a large number of seemingly innocuous documents.

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=asia+map+physical+pdf
    • http://files.eldridgechurchofchrist.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406527/d281edcfce2360.pdf
    • http://files.trulyamelia.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739697/3914004.pdf
    • http://files.thefilamentstudio.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606035/fakesijerisaz.pdf
    • http://files.colorformylife.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438379/8338604.pdf
    • http://zinifewaw.paulgreenwoodactor.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739553/jiworivujeditisepe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4654/1211/files/56271496120.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4542/8127/files/virtualbox_headless_start.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4379/0760/files/dixetaxo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/japoxotoruzub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1268/4967/files/29078634794.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7114/3078/files/wuzovedubogejumowuba.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9313/1425/files/wekinipifagotadebaba.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3899/7669/files/61400737806.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8843/5613/files/bufawuvugagojurexesilawad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4991/7347/files/super_mario_sunshine_online.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_off00005548.bin
155e557ae523abdde97e86db95ac56acf921e17773ea8fff064c52b8afd38155
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5548 5392 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000678a.bin
5ec5e8592976efa0e9e3132a1fc1b6996ff74c619a915eee49d4dc4a5ef705bb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x678A 10436 bytes