Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 456414d036d5785a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.5 KB Created: 2020-08-20 02:13:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 6e90eadbfbc157f51a8a3b329a0ae980 SHA-1: b55bd500b4f725e3578192653d9bd29ef3e02340 SHA-256: 456414d036d5785a1594baa0f28d6fdd6e91833750598abfc05874b0f2b07a38
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, with one heuristic identifying a link to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the string 'cicd devops full form' which is also present in the malicious URL. This suggests the document is designed to trick users into clicking malicious links under the guise of providing information.

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=cicd+devops+full+form
    • http://rajoxab.worldtravelingfeet.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871699/bajulu-muganeti-romubamamox-kodetiteviron.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8176/7848/files/black_tie_formal_wear_oak_lawn_il.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6167/4133/files/20893073798.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5094/3142/files/rejavavi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2888/1318/files/android_version_name_list.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6640/8603/files/buzovufavo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2931/5229/files/48178472438.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5581/6608/files/10797516435.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1017/6662/files/susakexidupebe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4853/4167/files/25170983304.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_off0000622b.bin
c4ae1d6d0cad068caa4e0cf17403a07a2fd4331ba69ee8e2133f6aad109fdf9a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x622B 5056 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007346.bin
c32ad0b77f823b3478550992c1efe9dce7b8a42d73e5a0d4734af0183d280b5f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7346 10096 bytes