Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fdb6e276bc7341a1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.2 KB Created: 2020-08-28 12:18:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9504c79a2995ffff1e6952b43b029d04 SHA-1: 347f337c097deb83359e3bf51d1ec32e1bee3bcf SHA-256: fdb6e276bc7341a1a32cdd0a7149b287ef0c5211fc9da581bb32d2cac0d8b1b8
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=matematicas+discretas+y+combinatoria'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, likely for SEO manipulation to increase visibility. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL. The primary attack vector appears to be luring users to malicious infrastructure disguised as academic content.

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=matematicas+discretas+y+combinatoria
    • http://mamunemel.klintericson.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437987/tupeditoram-sovivaxi-sarivokebaxak-zavoforego.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/1885/8146/files/aiou_solved_assignment_spring_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5525/9560/files/popobivakojamisab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9554/6273/files/lagu_mael_bukan_kaleng_kaleng.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5268/5726/files/tewekisitosamupipadofime.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6100/9829/files/22932935866.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9617/8849/files/moridodijajesojefi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0213/3671/files/siras.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4863/9391/files/rogawski_calculus_2nd_edition_solutions_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5363/7018/files/13045074116.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5797/9304/files/lojukural.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5870/8118/files/78677337402.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8984/4637/files/free_autoloader_blackberry_q5.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6241/9863/files/kti_bendungan_asi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0010/3071/files/38657142373.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/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0010/3071/files/38657142373

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004842.bin
3a2d94c11bafcdabb314f2dc8142043c48c02611d9957cc343f8825e27e36a7e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4842 5300 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005a35.bin
4556e14c5cea036d85ece5c20463a6ed71284eebf5506de34a6777679f44f620
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A35 11088 bytes