Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5503fb911040d8e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.1 KB Created: 2020-08-24 07:25:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 6fcaf20e8440365acbed544c05ea2cb7 SHA-1: 2a1eef92d200dc608b0d4dfa9272c2dda5e5a726 SHA-256: 5503fb911040d8e6331cddb41ed3eaeda154ee535a1e706334177c87d25ef287
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, which is a strong indicator of malicious intent. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to 'charge off' and 'credit report', aligning with the 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' heuristic. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which likely leads to further malicious content. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=charge+off+show+on+credit+report
    • http://kanofuf.uniontownartclub.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739974/c38b0dcec15636.pdf
    • http://satodorix.wofcca.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407406/vifapika.pdf
    • http://golonavo.ladpp.org.uk/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681556/famexoliduvedij.pdf
    • http://files.fitbodybyphyl.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069875/nopefapigubozupurilu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8699/5863/files/71304305718.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5327/7589/files/mean_median_mode_range_examples.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/11067845032.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8667/5109/files/javamuw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3099/4326/files/independent_contractor_agreement_template_australia.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5978/1538/files/ganonalijotilozomaga.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3080/4642/files/pajovenagoxapetowux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1214/5823/files/allluia_le_seigneur_rgne.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/matam.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_off00006a08.bin
83c7d914f67be88c1cc20944f83b603ec4e439672f5c2d77f163c6301c359ccf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A08 5380 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007c6d.bin
c8377bc436434276845caaafa7f7bb675139f042088711a97f602217a63204d4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7C6D 10364 bytes