Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4038828fe6cbe4f7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.0 KB Created: 2020-09-18 01:59:04 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 86e7e7912b838859512ac90e2c7b334b SHA-1: 3b637ba0bddd1374b2713a16ed061882ab096e55 SHA-256: 4038828fe6cbe4f7906a9ff638482cc46bd7769e88cb7f0798a3ffae5591bae9
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to domains associated with link farms and redirectors. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'reliability engineering' and includes URLs that are also present in the heuristic findings. The primary heuristic firings indicate that the PDF is a malicious redirector and part of a link farm, designed to lead users to harmful sites. 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.me/wix?keyword=reliability+engineering+pdf
    • http://vatomuz.tuftsprintcopy.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712348/3663559.pdf
    • http://detun.lifepathchurch.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070993/sonuwexetajir_nusuwexuletuxar_fuxezemidade_dorapakinozob.pdf
    • http://lonotaw.digginthedirt.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380081/579ab.pdf
    • http://zolig.fifelake.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070765/zijomibij-tivixom.pdf
    • https://d8db5d06-4af9-42a1-97be-f5e979ab6c63.filesusr.com/ugd/1cc7e8_3724950d80b34ee58a4d640f8f9c24e9.pdf?index=true
    • https://91a4ae40-4c32-4050-a537-d374ec697d37.filesusr.com/ugd/143c98_add814fc83134c31b9e8380c0b59210c.pdf?index=true
    • https://dfa60295-83fd-4c34-a078-77da92a257e7.filesusr.com/ugd/2072cd_2c4e9496a0a646ec81401ce72b0114cf.pdf?index=true
    • https://9e8c42aa-5b52-49e1-8555-702460132a66.filesusr.com/ugd/3bf302_812d3ad077604a6289dd07c1d252ef82.pdf?index=true
    • https://1c4e5db0-808e-41a1-9f3e-bb6c856abbf2.filesusr.com/ugd/affaa6_fd00da1d6bcf4a60b2310b1813432c15.pdf?index=true
    • https://bab39ee1-aebf-4638-b99a-25811b3f200a.filesusr.com/ugd/9904c2_38921ced64b142738639b597ce5cbac6.pdf?index=true
    • https://b4e31133-48e8-435a-a989-aa8adfaf0b79.filesusr.com/ugd/0d018b_34e6a06cb55d4cf8859c7e958bbec38f.pdf?index=true
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0176/6310/files/sokodekalodipopur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6856/3355/files/numaxeg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4373/4182/files/wufij.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_off00004c34.bin
25331ea17cbe31f4aa15657cd1cebc898f80450aaadb05857a31ad3e49160381
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4C34 5280 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005e42.bin
49e22ba83e3dac6a779896ed95d1593ef030e25b9749188add1d7ccb5aad5255
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E42 9744 bytes