Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb4a9933ab94959c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

61.3 KB Created: 2020-08-12 22:47:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 916d3e56ce48b6dc1e22a4cae4bec553 SHA-1: be30b78d36096c839dae8f918499025568917a82 SHA-256: eb4a9933ab94959c665b306becbd408ae09d0d9aada598031b974660d46338dd
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a reference to this URL and mentions 'Google advertising tools pdf', suggesting a lure. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous external links, many hosted on Shopify. The presence of a payment redirection lure heuristic further supports the conclusion that this document is designed to trick users into clicking malicious links, likely for financial gain or to download further malware.

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • Payment redirection / bank-detail change lure high SE_PAYMENT_REDIRECT_LURE
    Document describes new or changed bank, wire, ACH, IBAN, SWIFT, or routing instructions — a high-value business-email-compromise 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=google+advertising+tools+pdf
    • http://files.bookbrokers1.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741241/zawasoje.pdf
    • http://files.monteverdimusic.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070678/wufatimivo.pdf
    • http://files.nationalconstructionsafetyexecutives.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856186/c61a29.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/rofan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9217/3217/files/59235984689.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8362/8708/files/90053346891.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8110/5562/files/ethical_dilemma_definition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5470/3526/files/nikujidujubedekumusigawej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/1462/3130/files/top_secret_bankers_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7607/3125/files/vorijegadijek.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8306/2678/files/best_sociology_books_for_upsc.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4591/2727/files/zegebupumikazudole.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6807/0815/files/democratic_autocratic_and_laissez_faire_leadership.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4791/9516/files/21080747954.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6108/3301/files/joint_of_n_order_statistics.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_off0000b1e4.bin
02deb1177497bad67866109acec66049af7b911162e2ca1f85a6ae2f7a65afde
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB1E4 5300 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000c40b.bin
51cb7ab467eb2a496279a399f94527c7f3b7003f811a5ca5dfa1448d320d3d61
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC40B 10548 bytes