Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f38a906e7585cf7b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.2 KB Created: 2020-08-17 10:46:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 86d35357d7a08d2ba091f35e75249889 SHA-1: 201d68012b1ebbd2f04073a84774b0a32dbf899e SHA-256: f38a906e7585cf7ba5847f1f764321f508a9b83d4d640489810e59a0b3fc7bbf
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, a technique often used to redirect users to malicious sites. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, 'ttraff.ru', which is further disguised with a movie-related keyword. Another heuristic flagged the document as a link farm, with many links pointing to shopify.com, some of which are confirmed benign, but others are unknown. The document body contains garbled text but also includes the malicious URL and a reference to the 'wkhtmltopdf' tool, suggesting it was generated programmatically to host these links.

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=cars+2+movie++in+tamil+isaimini
    • http://molafagik.daretobeextraordinary.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483492/4848191.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7728/0671/files/divub.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4267/6648/files/advanced_systemcare_pro_12_key.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9144/3364/files/knockout_js_tutorial_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2955/3575/files/bautagebuch_bg_bau.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2508/8168/files/xumirifudidozuvolova.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4936/9252/files/rurobabama.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/84312174386.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/6574/8130/files/cognitive_ability_test_questions_and_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8298/0259/files/2397734643.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6623/7852/files/66234185546.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9428/5218/files/arena_software_student_version.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2480/9122/files/50625453131.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1283/1907/files/pejejonisojupivokupez.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_off00004dd0.bin
50049b6277593347ef1c3933f3ecf924b18feec1f0475349e8e80d03219aa587
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4DD0 4832 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005e24.bin
e1eb05b5480f48c50a8b23006bebca4f90040a3ac4ccb871dd3ad24f4c6ba19e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E24 10524 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00008214.bin
1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8214 4324 bytes