Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f16ad314ab1d7556…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.9 KB Created: 2020-08-04 13:22:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4d9b666e0cd23427a197bae0804671f4 SHA-1: 52471c0adf48ceabb0989007a9e01ff8e3b76dc9 SHA-256: f16ad314ab1d7556d12c5337cb6c533ba7c9d3ac7fee354001fa1ecc3ce4a8be
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify domains hosting PDF files, likely as part of an SEO link farm. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, ttraff.com, which is used to obscure the final destination. The document body, though corrupted, contains text related to 'understanding the linux kernel 4th edition pdf download' and the malicious redirector URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into downloading 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.com/pify?keyword=understanding+the+linux+kernel+4th+edition+pdf+download
    • http://files.mitchellwenkus.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681579/fd66669.pdf
    • http://files.woman-empower-yourself.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409200/waxewagu.pdf
    • http://files.heartpieces.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379749/3776242.pdf
    • http://files.stefczaksgreenhouse.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681579/937705734dbf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1335/6189/files/51135607753.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3786/7680/files/18843047750.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5312/9629/files/project_risk_management_pmbok.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9088/6312/files/58151983298.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7211/9193/files/tuwadugatosikidinij.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0105/2312/files/jurabed.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8153/9489/files/70396324616.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6635/0998/files/14224696196.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2096/6298/files/jonezexoj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7346/9597/files/8865554441.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3045/2123/files/geruta.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7006/2754/files/62294775047.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2962/4992/files/qdel_all_jobs.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5107/4214/files/pumuzokexenuwe.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005b79.bin
47db985cba833494fbcfbda3a8682395a3f040578689558da538f033f17ecf2e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B79 5488 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006e37.bin
bb83a0accc2c02915e1b98f7c67d9b85d6176ad308ffd704be8f9e260eadb717
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E37 9808 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00008fb7.bin
4fcfa7c68d76e23b667942a3ac892d2d5d88346478daafc61479ad4df4af3dd3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8FB7 4324 bytes