Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4aa105b194f0175f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.2 KB Created: 2020-08-02 16:56:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1abaf0c1de63d7456161e97ba2831978 SHA-1: e9e29da59b8c85002e0451d45a70949211771c50 SHA-256: 4aa105b194f0175fe51e86385608598e376ca9ad01ba105ebc21f4a072e13f85
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link and a link farm, indicating a phishing or scam attempt. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'cash flow' and includes the malicious URL. The presence of numerous external PDF links suggests an attempt to distribute further malicious content or engage in SEO manipulation for malicious purposes.

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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=direct+vs+indirect+cash+flow
    • http://files.nepalrvt.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606289/9a163d3.pdf
    • http://files.zumbawithmlinda.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406337/7881585.pdf
    • http://files.twogreenshoots.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681479/luniz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2981/5705/files/suriziw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3127/3365/files/nobuzufisibilejadovasa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8288/2980/files/43630869068.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0579/6774/files/19229988962.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2804/6233/files/14930570202.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3006/0955/files/tizufugolevidipugin.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1171/8820/files/36991332729.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4302/7104/files/19979275368.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8125/2512/files/67013326425.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1481/5901/files/medajodebaxodo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7516/5594/files/marasudok.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/1741554469.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4613/2119/files/filumis.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_off000065bc.bin
86a06bbcdba2df55a67d287dde769aa9c83e997d0dc67635c8994d3b8b3fd0f0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65BC 5048 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000076f2.bin
0c479722eb85545f4b8cac963691c739183bf6899cea92ada992cc37a81a53fb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x76F2 10236 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000099ef.bin
b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x99EF 4324 bytes