Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2a89f87c07215993…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.4 KB Created: 2020-08-14 03:02:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 74e331ec5cb0e482753a7502404fc8b4 SHA-1: c4da506d4691f8624128f5e98d38981d270ba43a SHA-256: 2a89f87c072159931cee7ce9ec667414495cc619dc43013831cf53a154533ccc
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm with 30 external links, many of which point to Shopify domains, but one critical link redirects to a known malicious URL. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Android studio show documentation on hover' and the malicious URL itself, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking. The PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic confirms the redirection to malicious infrastructure.

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=android+studio+show+documentation+on+hover
    • http://files.southtownplumbinginc.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775714/8689464.pdf
    • http://zupami.themanipulativebitch.co/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814930/jowerik.pdf
    • http://files.columbapoetry.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814769/2349575.pdf
    • http://guzegumi.butteswcd.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696030/8672834.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5844/5979/files/vefimigevujiri.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/90067119925.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7311/9143/files/fubadatiwokimo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9252/4702/files/lodadozizaropawesanugakor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1926/3397/files/46987648258.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4353/6552/files/lapusixebubogoj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7926/9541/files/riwezago.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9780/8279/files/berliner_platz_2_neu_lehrerhandbuch.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1267/0111/files/74465376558.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7801/6421/files/adobe_reader_dc_edit_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0151/1064/files/32353437768.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4291/2926/files/55624199780.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3199/4280/files/45624343095.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7091/4717/files/59712223169.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_off00006b54.bin
26ba356f61346a0c47574185678cd80dc2d89557f8b161a3230e846187ead44b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B54 5288 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007d33.bin
f38c4077bcd5e2274707f4aac782c921627786b0ebe2735a7fd1d5da7df60fb3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D33 10192 bytes