Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4f5db52470b5f544…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.0 KB Created: 2020-08-19 17:41:33 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5f12107607b2185b2653a10900f27023 SHA-1: 1a6182174b8ebad8e7a709e160b6d591db15bbea SHA-256: 4f5db52470b5f5445146dcf1a3912e52faf93a0a6bf0251ccadfdfe2a43b7873
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm and a malicious redirector, indicating an attempt to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure. The document body, though garbled, contains the text 'Poker guide pdf' and a URL pointing to a redirector, suggesting a lure. The presence of numerous links to benign Shopify PDFs alongside the malicious redirector suggests a link farm SEO tactic to improve search engine ranking for malicious content. The file was generated by wkhtmltopdf, a tool often used to create PDFs from web content, which aligns with the link farm and redirector findings.

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=poker+guide+pdf
    • http://fuxexobe.atouchofalchemytampa.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695636/4b1e010bb0.pdf
    • http://xogasaroj.esse-essentialoilskincare.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130970009/252cf6.pdf
    • http://files.powerdotmath.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969593/6e41cb1e6e581.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8985/2568/files/treatment_of_breast_cancer.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0958/0967/files/gta_san_andreas_xbox_360_cheats.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4835/2406/files/56689693145.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2727/4645/files/62896517900.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8897/7813/files/49463287868.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5354/7677/files/mumaxevudofe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/69651331918.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0423/9770/files/gidarexitisave.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/44994208471.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7728/0671/files/zikuj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4691/0624/files/ars_amatoria_bersetzung.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2937/2832/files/lakiladagoxo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9165/6864/files/automating_inequality_free.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_off00009022.bin
4700648850471c3b957520edeec818109a23c995536b5d6e6f25b03b5440543f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9022 4856 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a0bb.bin
7d1b5dce153bd9ae8ef7d88b117c8c782c3bda350811a01671d23e8303415a21
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA0BB 10732 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000c5a6.bin
d612c605d101522a7b082cd092ef78b209dae850c4a5e940dd0f53fb1bc5669f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC5A6 16148 bytes