Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 efe19e65ad566320…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.9 KB Created: 2020-08-24 04:31:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 8fc90a88318a590f1545be6407935473 SHA-1: b291f956728d533319db5ead6c1563778cf3a4ae SHA-256: efe19e65ad5663205a035f71acd4a1a7614dab155f8558cac5a797681eefcf37
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 PDF files hosted on Shopify. One of these links, however, leads to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.ru'. The document body text, though heavily obfuscated, contains the phrase "6 team baseball schedule template", likely serving as a lure. The presence of numerous links suggests a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to distribute malicious content.

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=6+team+baseball+schedule+template
    • http://files.sherpasride.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379111/1653136.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0365/5830/files/free_weight_loss_meal_plans.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5272/8474/files/53357624524.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4252/9695/files/sipuwerewewazox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9266/3703/files/raid_shadow_legends_guide_first_champion.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1532/3291/files/73555345070.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7243/7913/files/48461605530.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9754/7157/files/56657207410.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/0508/6616/files/chromatography_procedure.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4183/3635/files/kibukaroti.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_off00007ce3.bin
d2a5555d881eb0252635d579a62cec222baf426e9844764a61b341bb5ee6d47f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CE3 5416 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008f1b.bin
981a8ab47ccbbc95b2d572a6a95fa06f62902a130528dad3bd4a2cd6604d360d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8F1B 10608 bytes