Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dfc999fd6e153218…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.7 KB Created: 2020-08-14 23:17:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 716b2b27e0bdd6670b3efb9e2e9fc5e4 SHA-1: 519d525c1a61df6e09fd8e59b78c7ca97084ed60 SHA-256: dfc999fd6e153218d023b1626bb10bc5933ec381c285f6d93ac9ca03f292be86
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting other PDFs. One prominent link, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=aircrack+ng+windows++free', is identified as a malicious redirector. This suggests the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to potentially harmful content, likely for phishing or malware distribution, under the guise of providing software downloads.

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=aircrack+ng+windows++free
    • http://files.caitielockhart.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383657/pejivovumu-rokasak-badovetagixegop-lapuxedogizev.pdf
    • http://files.guettner.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130970012/e808d.pdf
    • http://files.newlifetabernacleupc.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681199/9358714.pdf
    • http://files.cantsitstill.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407235/7995694.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/30698029692.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/wadilizesiwegokadokepub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/dijev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2934/9030/files/shoutout_command_streamelements.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4744/4903/files/pofapuzegili.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/37263727017.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0269/9681/files/67996360449.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6393/4109/files/99605984126.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_off00005b7e.bin
0f88e3d75ae6dac5102c57145595c9c7a2ec4f0cd3b6a1c3537c97376af0830c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B7E 5300 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006d9d.bin
1f0f350735f8e738a65a059dbbfc187c7fd595e73523518de5e1a0a57cfa2d81
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D9D 12464 bytes