Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f799a2f555d16863…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.4 KB Created: 2020-08-07 12:42:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 651d407e58be5d5169b2ce11df4ebea9 SHA-1: c0a3480c75a18a4676fe237df94180c708146852 SHA-256: f799a2f555d1686370e40f6dcab35e46efb4ad7ab2c5a0b09f9f903d8426d656
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a deceptive lure for a 'Principles of Virology' PDF, which is a common tactic for SEO poisoning. The primary embedded URL, https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=principles+of+virology+pdf+free+download, is flagged as a malicious redirector. The document also contains a large number of links to other PDFs hosted on various domains, indicating a link farm designed to manipulate search engine results. No scripts were extracted, but the PDF structure and embedded links strongly suggest a malicious redirection attempt.

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=principles+of+virology+pdf+free+download
    • http://kupis.renewcleaningservice.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695818/womevoketojikosututi.pdf
    • http://files.ewgic.eu/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164506/d584456510.pdf
    • http://files.nationalnightouteasterndistrict.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437702/5118415.pdf
    • http://files.buttercreamlane.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637190/4422115.pdf
    • http://xapaw.ivexpo.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302872/melinusufagazix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2178/6521/files/16402263603.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9167/2736/files/58625156520.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0291/2168/files/jumafatabagujegopusaguv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4933/7507/files/xoxotadosixevizifo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7496/8997/files/16307876701.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7663/2214/files/gewined.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2449/9367/files/wasinevoxikosetedebiz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8484/1124/files/15854710346.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0539/3571/files/gofuwukiloziwuzanumo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3945/7431/files/zepup.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3393/4496/files/20946333536.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0007/0307/files/92360024442.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7182/3267/files/rodebukedudolimurini.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1386/4602/files/fuvewoxevep.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_off0000555c.bin
d48fd4a38ce979346411569b680b194497bc9cf3b5767d112ea91845122c7d89
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x555C 5580 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006883.bin
388ec08a88dbba74e3d3384c9bf393f294fa4d175e639a60af5bf95d0ca4dd43
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6883 11032 bytes