Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4e8f97dccd5a31f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.9 KB Created: 2020-08-11 23:55:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 6960a178b3603747f8e85f2cbdaf014a SHA-1: ff0d93ee8fae239e2ef1c6fb29449c9a26284101 SHA-256: e4e8f97dccd5a31f19b645ccfb16a473f3e7102c10464b092dfdc65d4376527b
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 pointing to external PDF files, which is indicative of a link farm or SEO spamming technique. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, 'ttraff.ru', which is used to obscure the final destination. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to academic marksheets and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the link. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack pattern involves redirecting users to malicious infrastructure.

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=self+attested+certificate+of+pervious+academic+marksheet+pdf
    • http://wepudidaw.1procurementplace.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738848/buximuzasuwiwu-dolejamixa.pdf
    • http://files.isimonterey.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454355/babada-napipisobesod.pdf
    • http://files.darkpeninsulapress.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775750/49b44.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7784/3609/files/dexifuwefejulopegobebefe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7482/7941/files/35628403826.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8374/2884/files/ponefa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8558/6849/files/15146476392.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2430/8630/files/35104872831.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2875/0241/files/60957458242.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3273/1038/files/51223452111.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7566/6073/files/84564879181.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8336/6551/files/armature_reaction_and_commutation_in_dc_machines.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4906/6394/files/all_flip_flop_truth_table.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/5497/7444/files/rolling_stones_top_500_albums.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8926/4794/files/83486142664.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0813/8150/files/89779451544.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_off0000606a.bin
32236c3f322ace152bf0567dd3df29daa61362d887a3b87fd89da3ba33d12bd1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x606A 5624 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007360.bin
6b37ca792eb56817fecda7eb1ac0a21b374658dacfc218af690a896a0a74dae8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7360 10292 bytes