Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ec4c268ecb6cfe18…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.1 KB Created: 2020-08-21 20:54:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4698ccf06f039d1a9de163c69db844f9 SHA-1: cf9072c16f0499d03548d7f92eeb59dc0229ebcd SHA-256: ec4c268ecb6cfe184e55e3cda471022c2bb560b7b4fcd3005a9d37ae8af890fb
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious due to a high number of embedded external links, a technique often used to create link farms for SEO manipulation or to redirect users to malicious sites. One critical heuristic specifically flagged a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=pronoun+and+their+antecedent+pdf'. While many other links point to benign Shopify domains, the presence of the malicious redirector and the sheer volume of links suggest a malicious intent, likely to lure users to a compromised or malicious site.

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=pronoun+and+their+antecedent+pdf
    • http://files.victorystrengthandfitness.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379111/3189598c68fd.pdf
    • http://fabupa.thelactx.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776485/6227263.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5943/0054/files/64105031386.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2878/1973/files/business_management_book_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0459/9051/0749/files/blackmart_pro_apk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8494/8380/files/benim_hocam_kpss_trke_ders_notlar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0876/1764/files/all_unix_commands_with_syntax_and_examples.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6805/4940/files/37258686187.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4647/6708/files/10973361940.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3734/3387/files/49614489543.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9838/3260/files/posivurewuzejasag.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6612/1623/files/determining_volume_of_joined_rectangular_prisms.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3439/5295/files/jadijijovoxotetilezeris.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/3040/0411/files/honda_nc700x_service_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/5425/5515/files/unity_clamp_rotation.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8855/2870/files/approaches_to_the_study_of_psychology.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_off0000683b.bin
e5b7e23771bb9b2519c66eee002234efa7c1594c5ce80738a40ce9ee5d9cc67d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x683B 5032 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007950.bin
62f7463fa571b20f9292a722eb4922b42c999db29d3f03ba13e2436cd99675fd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7950 10080 bytes