Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f0fb9d794de14c78…

MALICIOUS

PDF

116.2 KB Created: 2020-08-29 16:26:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 585bcc55df6a12e356deb83487215a0d SHA-1: d6961cd6bd19a79a0a8d60730b0b65fb29472f0f SHA-256: f0fb9d794de14c7804424300398fcdde0a29dab1203634448a0764d74f8e5e04
120 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 pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=%25D9%2583%25D9%258A%25D9%2581+%25D9%2586%25D8%25B9%25D9%258A%25D8%25AF+%25D8%25B6%25D8%25A8%25D8%25B7+%25D8%25AE%25D8%25B1%25D8%25B7%25D9%2588%25D8%25B4%25D8%25A9+%25D8%25AD%25D8%25A8%25D8%25B1+hp+56'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF SEO link farm, with numerous links to Shopify-hosted PDFs. The document body contains obfuscated text and embedded URLs, further supporting the malicious intent of redirecting users to potentially harmful 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/wix?keyword=%25D9%2583%25D9%258A%25D9%2581+%25D9%2586%25D8%25B9%25D9%258A%25D8%25AF+%25D8%25B6%25D8%25A8%25D8%25B7+%25D8%25AE%25D8%25B1%25D8%25B7%25D9%2588%25D8%25B4%25D8%25A9+%25D8%25AD%25D8%25A8%25D8%25B1+hp+56
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/99231100330.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9785/8972/files/73727203909.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8341/5204/files/88748580264.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0659/0106/files/g_force_game_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4053/8773/files/first_information_report_fir.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7007/8617/files/article_format_cbse_class_12.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6338/6016/files/vavalidapipizimezoje.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0b85067cdeb548399a006cf4caf3c6a1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b92fa0b6174c46968c8cddc0ad240f12.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4cf28d_5621734c302543458a3b6a09e2424d94.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9449/7698/files/2322877283.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5339/7654/files/wexugoxo.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
stream_007_off0001863d.bin
db2d1848d00a1d56a6e6a713f9cc45e8ed72a7c4d8eef3a5566d7c3a17f96a20
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x1863D 34344 bytes
font_00_sfnt_off00013ad7.bin
f0360228e051c5800cac99eef3c5fbc47bce04623839098f3c45ea94399177f2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AD7 4572 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00014a5f.bin
84b98fefe63d98012efd95c4892588ff8f9feb24674203c8373770c79a4a5f1b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14A5F 18136 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0001662f.bin
fd6d3bfe0570b90871ab91606fb8846d19ca1d8fd968192055b54ed9e34bb546
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1662F 9340 bytes