Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2b5096963eafc094…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.6 KB Created: 2020-08-20 09:22:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 740932b04ec901c65969d6ebf6674276 SHA-1: 7f21063283f44fe0026d721e568ee3f2332bda6e SHA-256: 2b5096963eafc09476b1e840a112299bbf440ed951d9eeadf84193d7f667a13b
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a mass of external links, with one prominent link pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text referencing 'Valkyria chronicles pc guide' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the link. The PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic confirms the presence of a link 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.cc/pify?keyword=valkyria+chronicles+pc+guide
    • http://kulupu.ethancranke.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380158/turonabile_panavuxaleta_rezikomu.pdf
    • http://files.aramgershuni.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775888/peleronipegadaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7632/1434/files/galijezuzuduzuk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1044/8795/files/xosaxizidubof.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4949/9289/files/43704011411.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7727/1706/files/lawel.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3119/0952/files/budget_format.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5863/4650/files/murimazosizu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3305/0779/files/curso_ingles.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0301/7378/files/65723145986.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_off00005b9f.bin
f16ac95b67826fa6e67859f641b5e469f2572c21240519906684e1195a9a8237
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B9F 5268 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006d75.bin
f4c06ab9e8897ec71406f1883460a5fa3d770af1e8040a333fc5b8d0efb3a3f4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D75 10076 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00008ff1.bin
9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8FF1 4324 bytes