Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8f957d13a08495f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.9 KB Created: 2020-08-15 06:32:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 86fe285d2fc27e1529e3bbe51b7b7583 SHA-1: 8cba36e1dbfc605a1ab5c49f082ad34ca916237b SHA-256: e8f957d13a08495fe6aa69f2757aacfea35a6ac9425e4003434c9d64799df308
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 of which point to external resources, a common tactic for SEO poisoning and redirecting users to malicious sites. The primary malicious link identified is 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=isosceles+triangle+properties+answer+key', which is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting an attempt to disguise the malicious intent with a seemingly educational topic.

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=isosceles+triangle+properties+answer+key
    • http://tibebopoj.livestockmanagementsystems.co.uk/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815154/jozarepes.pdf
    • http://files.ediacaran.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775677/fenuperiruxelux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1520/8098/files/xokiwimatirijewukiw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6925/1487/files/824972962.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4546/9858/files/66355343731.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7901/6360/files/apraxia_types.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8794/6133/files/hard_callus_formation_x_ray.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3848/1320/files/57818317599.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8319/2727/files/vujegibane.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0657/4240/files/89806179513.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2804/6233/files/educao_e_universidade_anisio_teixeira.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/kufotiniponekurek.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6108/3301/files/wijutapuvoxaz.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006f5f.bin
88405f4e89beff02b88d169e4498a44d5fd55eb1039472477170cbf7c0776522
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F5F 5084 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000080c3.bin
c8344492c4fe07f3f1b3e448f3d9e8bb5b2f2fff9d028f32eb40ddf9e6182ecb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x80C3 10812 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000a5b6.bin
1bc4a51e85020b94ee4c9054c8c59b7a0ac2ab8bad8d699e80a78382423aa71e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA5B6 16444 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0000bc13.bin
a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC13 4324 bytes