Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e59c3726cc10a720…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.5 KB Created: 2020-08-28 12:25:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 872f350d8e75307c8003fc617293afdc SHA-1: a64cedced2eebdc5f73d30d61037513c8a8a10d8 SHA-256: e59c3726cc10a720256231c715bd7858600078d2d86fcb242a4884ba7fb2a6aa
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on Shopify. One of these links, 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=korean+grammar+worksheets', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'Korean grammar worksheets', suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The presence of a malicious redirector indicates an attempt to lead the user to a harmful destination.

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=korean+grammar+worksheets
    • http://files.cromsphotography.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776204/9e3f323a2e8.pdf
    • http://files.daybreakersolutions.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775987/addba17.pdf
    • http://vuxel.saladbowlproject.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380213/jepogug_ruwazomorodavo_lufinefop_rajabu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0009/4112/files/navy_blue_jackets_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6820/3942/files/fuvawudodukivelonaza.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4728/1062/files/body_movement_worksheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/fadanamimurusekebunom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1202/1662/files/1528900904.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1755/2543/files/71892844731.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1242/1789/files/potoxag.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6633/6167/files/bolopezelowiposobewepuk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6687/4266/files/vovukutizutim.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6294/2106/files/archeage_darkrunner_guide.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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005da9.bin
98b13b3c25ccecd029ebb4aeef88b4d518ee784b1cf1ba092700ccb7d4c74945
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5DA9 8028 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000076f2.bin
9d3a43d07385860d08a2df93289cdde52b110064e3b3dafa2376aad8b3cf8a4b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x76F2 5192 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000887b.bin
a36eee06fef6ce219692c4ec918276ac99413e4fd1e3666e4031624f9289d620
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x887B 1800 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off00009107.bin
ddf2ec09c613d7f73e485761e30410b152deba61789d6a037e8642032336f9c1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9107 9800 bytes
font_04_sfnt_off0000b2d2.bin
028dbaa76d48ae99b02248bacea50134e27ed131f5dd39e25ac401de8961e19b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB2D2 16312 bytes