Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fcd3b1f735eb796e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.2 KB Created: 2020-07-27 08:42:37 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9c6774d1f5625e938a7bd0a4398520ab SHA-1: 5c5d133b1a81220f231b1ed7cb3f751800453fe2 SHA-256: fcd3b1f735eb796e95b838da825f229348d831dfdb403c26adc4fa3fad88a761
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious Link T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.003 Windows Command Shell

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic. One critical heuristic indicates a link to a known malicious redirector at 'ttraff.ru'. Another heuristic suggests the document instructs the user to interact with command-line tools, likely to facilitate further malicious activity. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear textual content for analysis.

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.
  • Clipboard command execution lure high SE_CLIPBOARD_COMMAND_LURE
    Document tells the user to copy or paste clipboard content into Run, PowerShell, cmd, or another shell-like execution context
  • 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=autocad+electrical+tutorial
    • http://files.hinchinbrookresearch.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383318/befudexona.pdf
    • http://files.mauriceshapero.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681201/jobov.pdf
    • http://files.printpastelandpaint.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681560/ae9aac77.pdf
    • http://files.mauriceshapero.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6237/8152/files/60414460070.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4131/7276/files/75738972649.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6148/5471/files/84632372369.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0844/0990/files/jisevifibegu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8488/2844/files/3087093398.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7096/3350/files/xudor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/17612659915.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0094/5048/files/34174091074.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6921/0773/files/85267805383.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1347/9320/files/gazawe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7400/9753/files/sowit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6104/3605/files/dufetenafafowevege.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0831/9907/files/bamomiwagivexoponiw.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_off000071e3.bin
876359adb5ed041008a9d609749734664067dc8bbc96536593cf4f8249717444
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71E3 4520 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008149.bin
e587bc549367549b60a486ee86687a747586cd9db3dddcb3540c375295dc8e41
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8149 9900 bytes