Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa3a474be9a422b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.3 KB Created: 2020-08-21 14:25:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7c8d3a300b1be66db5e15c29ddf52b59 SHA-1: 94e092e9b2629d95ab426280cf9441fc77cbcec3 SHA-256: fa3a474be9a422b095362e059b5526d1945fbaf235e717758fb4634c6b6f4441
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one pointing to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.ru'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'sql server 2008 r2 iso file' and a URL that appears to be part of a link farm. The 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' heuristic indicates that the document likely instructs the user to open a password-protected archive, a common tactic to bypass security scanning. The presence of numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm designed to improve search engine ranking for malicious content.

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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=sql+server+2008+r2+iso+file
    • http://mugoda.how2productions.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163960/rabefupi_dugoxuxifapadow_vomaluve.pdf
    • http://files.nuclearwarfare.de/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740130/dd3b9f27e.pdf
    • http://gilanor.givoie.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164250/8644611.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6493/4043/files/25907961800.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7372/3811/files/17723313458.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/6150/4152/files/28547101100.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9776/8614/files/abrsm_jazz_piano_pieces_grade_1.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9886/4800/files/logical_positivism_philosophy_of_education.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3673/5650/files/86477547221.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5757/7122/files/contaminacion_atmosferica_mexico.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2965/0843/files/78809717866.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0190/5315/files/milexunadejas.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_off00004bb4.bin
0f149986dbb02aa175b5307f917cfeafafab152383dd5f756c44325d7e8cebdc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4BB4 4908 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005c74.bin
b5620ed502f20ec1a6a9cc6771e0fcb88006e8407a10d52f7e73691ed68c6a01
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5C74 10088 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00007eab.bin
9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7EAB 4324 bytes