Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 518b6dceff5cae6f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.0 KB Created: 2020-07-20 12:40:12 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 45d91c4e464cb4b4117d94c9621bc875 SHA-1: 733617a70739dab9b257360ce363e68ebc25ccfd SHA-256: 518b6dceff5cae6f6e5373745cd89feeaa6753dfa840f71df414fbdb270bd86d
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, with one specifically identified as a malicious redirector. The heuristic 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' indicates a direct attempt to lead users to harmful content. The 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' heuristic further suggests a large number of outbound links, likely to manipulate search engine results or distribute malicious content. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains metadata suggesting it was generated by wkhtmltopdf, a tool often used to create PDFs from web content, aligning with the link farm behavior.

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/wb?keyword=orgoglio%20e%20pregiudizio%20pdf%20libro
    • http://files.simonhansendk.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164047/0fd7cd3d.pdf
    • http://files.nittennair.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131636562/pajefowanomawu-dakikitu-telarevoweg.pdf
    • http://files.nextmanager.net/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606844/zotabakuni-pabin-vojez.pdf
    • http://files.hennamaiden.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409090/vorofo.pdf
    • http://files.taylorslaw.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814110/zejed.pdf
    • http://files.nextmanager.net/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606844
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4295/5676/files/39515575773.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3128/1312/files/lotuzurewodeme.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6482/8838/files/42605800099.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0275/7281/files/rulubuxikeg.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6134/6466/files/putidategarugelakiwa.pdf
    • https://zutatakinud.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/fesawitixuxiwidapos.pdf
    • https://kopokugol.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/libajowewubizewunonepuda.pdf
    • https://bojodexiwow.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/jatozita.pdf
    • https://wekunupapire.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/berewexixenuwigota.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3423/0429/files/suvegejapan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0009/4112/files/51279455471.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1687/0296/files/42844666586.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8377/4614/files/9608045243.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9839/7085/files/47299443814.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7279/0421/files/83928329924.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_off0000a5fd.bin
9031247863850fe7ef2bbce4b3282b01d837c2b6d4c975edc39d19b7b039d5bb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA5FD 4732 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000b626.bin
9883f6d5a4dd27a4dc0da29d4711ea7f14bc265436ac16a34584128fa1c45628
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB626 11092 bytes