Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f42bc387eef6991f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.1 KB Created: 2020-08-03 09:02:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 8a9da55acde6ff629213647840445493 SHA-1: 534246fdd40ff89945d9111ceb3e08e9e1b3e367 SHA-256: f42bc387eef6991fc7ba41cd2f81579a9e1031584db8c907fa75f15bc4c67e89
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/wb?keyword=multiplexer%20and%20demultiplexer%20circuit%20pdf'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous links to external PDFs, including one hosted on cdn.shopify.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains embedded URLs that likely serve as the lure. The primary intent appears to be redirecting the user to malicious infrastructure.

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/wb?keyword=multiplexer%20and%20demultiplexer%20circuit%20pdf
    • http://files.bwitched.com.au/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695329/eab048c0.pdf
    • http://mejikeko.southwestyogaacademy.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775612/fanatu.pdf
    • http://files.cjcthelord.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814900/tekoguxonubo-pemidosisonume-baparakujo-volisu.pdf
    • http://files.elginartist.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813972/3ffec8b.pdf
    • http://files.rebeccaandersonart.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407857/6928554.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0016/8597/files/32671607098.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/3278/6597/files/black_ops_2_steam_key_generator.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8945/3473/files/togegilelumelubefozojusi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/63529720688.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4326/6458/files/widifewodafazalaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5340/6618/files/selfcare._rr._com_change_password.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1471/7597/files/jobomorupiwerosanu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5307/2022/files/3966490383.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9676/8665/files/worlds_hardest_game_hacked.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0303/4276/files/mugijetavigizelanelekim.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9122/1923/files/nazidewopali.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4456/9242/files/tapitokuj.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_off00007b86.bin
3fac6f54e94f8937763c4c680fe1515f53b8b00c72d6f8b79535bff2eaea9fbd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B86 5196 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008d36.bin
b74c99f2eb47c5e620a4d1a506af3223af81e342085aa6140024e87de6f11a19
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8D36 10580 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000b187.bin
38b6ed9c22e1510dd00534e047962dae65cb50c48ea5ab5bbfde3b48fe6022c0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB187 16204 bytes