Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 28f3025356a0d1a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.5 KB Created: 2020-09-01 05:20:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 657cd909bd3c42918982dbc62b2ba40f SHA-1: 86d2a9ac9762e5cf1a131c56ab2a14ca806d59a1 SHA-256: 28f3025356a0d1a0c42291e3d42a64e86958fa45b46f703144638b7dcf7542c6
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL that triggered the malicious redirector heuristic. This suggests the PDF is designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, likely for further exploitation or phishing. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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.cc/wix?keyword=simplified+arabic+bold+font+free
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0452/6794/3586/files/audit_risk_management.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6033/9623/files/dotuvokiburogamesifoki.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1376/6296/files/41310192654.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/9969/0910/files/3647078806.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7062/7735/files/nuvet.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2f7815_4a399006764f43b0b19f511f568af7c6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8b97dd_81e1950f9d5740fc9a249c5d48c573e7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/576447_358be4a87822493dbdd21b032bad9ef0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f38d507272ba4bb5ac3f24534b1883b7.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2767/7852/files/warefikesotoro.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/9670/9022/files/nutritional_information_three_bean_salad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7121/8588/files/59779277328.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0740/9308/files/wunenigigatuvokeru.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/dd4472_702c515879344b50b09ab4eea8ca7b6c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2ca09c_19d21876b33645a598d33efc35ab9181.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b6aaf312e7c8418087497f06d67d87a4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/409ca8_fd98a2b813e0477eb9ed497957694a7a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9b33c5_cf70d3d1377e4253b2f7af906ad948c2.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_off0000517f.bin
1ffa2a75f45521f2e9b316bf0ee0f10d23adf807033fe75b1fd770b1fb95678d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x517F 5364 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000063a1.bin
8624b1f7d1d94317798d4f10b50be29df9ff6487d8b259f80be2c2179e068a62
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x63A1 11700 bytes