Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 538f930b18576dd8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.4 KB Created: 2020-08-09 23:20:08 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 499412034438b0b5c432ea32312342ad SHA-1: 32bf8c59e4663cf4645e6f7ef89533a8d02cbb37 SHA-256: 538f930b18576dd873c0941d0e3825121a23bf0edb0425973420ee7161f8785a
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The heuristic firings indicate this is a link farm designed to generate traffic, likely for SEO purposes. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL, reinforcing the attack pattern. No scripts were extracted, limiting further analysis of payload delivery.

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=historia+cristianismo+primitivo+pdf
    • http://files.jemdesignz.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438583/d0ad087.pdf
    • http://files.barbarascottwriter.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606758/b9dce9cb27ff53e.pdf
    • http://files.vivithesupervegan.co.uk/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814898/vawigikex.pdf
    • http://files.pilgrim-medj.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740066/nobujatukonusularid.pdf
    • http://majelor.meowlinda.ca/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437736/e848b09efca062.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5213/0716/files/39172789495.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6759/6184/files/20890848926.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7754/1787/files/ragirebe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2424/5155/files/illustrator_cs6_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/4117/5190/files/blog_de_descarga_de_libros_gratis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7676/4327/files/kukupupodurimuzujafiverul.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5543/8234/files/motivagir.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4494/5571/files/60897653112.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/9506/8565/files/the_architecture_reference_specification_book_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9443/2161/files/kofenasirilato.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2821/0073/files/39595666572.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8858/4605/files/85064420127.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6124/7129/files/whatcom_county_jail_roster.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_off0000faed.bin
8e8bd92c50d9890d396843ad5b8315ef5dfcf87adfd608f1dd147d748e39d710
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFAED 5288 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00010cdb.bin
fb0132064c0366fa03962217693b8658ed82143a0d8a0b995f600a3f16075245
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10CDB 11584 bytes