Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4494266978a0376a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.0 KB Created: 2020-07-29 01:26:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5cd277a1635d01e22ad6ba8724f600ad SHA-1: 0a965bbfd7bd67b6f780925a21ca8c2947772684 SHA-256: 4494266978a0376a2c78ba21eddc62640c2b7ff9bdad0203843d09b7beac1852
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file was identified as malicious due to a critical heuristic firing for PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK, indicating it contains links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. Additionally, the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic fired, noting a large number of embedded external PDF links, with the first observed link being to `https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9888/9635/files/rexil.pdf`. The embedded document body text is heavily obfuscated and unreadable, but the presence of these link farms strongly suggests a phishing or malware distribution attempt.

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=html+link+stylesheet+in+body
    • http://files.norwooddentalblog.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606069/2641239.pdf
    • http://files.boehle-fotografie.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606201/5437925a7cb3cac.pdf
    • http://files.richardweinberger.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695887/1167264.pdf
    • http://files.tarzanstravels.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454549/suvijam.pdf
    • http://files.honeyhopfarm.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969408/911abb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9888/9635/files/rexil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7709/8910/files/77298733492.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7706/5121/files/61419434882.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/23535065851.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8099/1388/files/2873611029.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6243/5739/files/78731333436.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5525/9560/files/kuworeditowatufareke.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4077/5064/files/jojokilemaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5346/6271/files/43441242014.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4251/2802/files/nogilaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6314/8706/files/46282190480.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/41326774972.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/wakorijupomimenupe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7258/4861/files/jesig.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/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8099/1388/files/287

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00007220.bin
13f1b08489f04ad3f5839f34a6456acc672d4f6b17ed4bf663632f4acf971998
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7220 4816 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008245.bin
35eeb039144c5bf1ce43b504c5038c4e7d81075aeea14c19f1f8d64ccc665920
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8245 12636 bytes