Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43d0d842856149fd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.5 KB Created: 2020-08-20 02:17:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9a5db124dab167e7ea478b72a9b858ca SHA-1: e874803a1205de48ff7eb56dc2ec4b5334153a47 SHA-256: 43d0d842856149fd7161b3e665cc97d3f3481b7550f6eb9a85da0f84338a34e4
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing indicating a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Mobo market app store apk' and references the wkhtmltopdf tool, suggesting a lure for potentially unwanted applications or malware. The presence of numerous external links, many hosted on Shopify, points towards a link farm or redirection strategy to mask the ultimate malicious destination. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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=mobo+market+app+store+apk
    • http://files.redmoonpathways.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739475/kezodatim-xaluvuwudatipus-niworojarer.pdf
    • http://files.bigsmokestudios.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681394/pazonizapapu-gunawujotimufe-kavofixevedopi.pdf
    • http://files.baplink.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164424/8da57.pdf
    • http://mizopagez.beardedbomb.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070894/tikavoliz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5509/4677/files/24421021603.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4785/2959/files/bean_seed_germination_lab_report.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8900/2645/files/64242133407.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7910/6724/files/music_notes_meaning.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2736/5031/files/25344025168.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5113/8715/files/tufaxepopimasigu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3440/2216/files/pawulegutumoxunatofom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0610/7552/files/bifakexomobifovawu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5943/0047/files/87322134083.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3256/7195/files/loganajepozatelafiruronu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8538/9212/files/february_2019_calendar_template_editable.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_off00005a8f.bin
bdef2c55a4df06c9149bbc7b031ec4d2f3c2435dc4f46cee08b81ed5ffbe5567
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A8F 5140 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006bf6.bin
ec21be15340223292b65e1e1ac81825a7ced80453da033d400282cc113a310b0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6BF6 13996 bytes