Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 76b3aada4e0601d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.5 KB Created: 2020-07-31 10:50:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ff5b13c7c9d655f3e2809b46ba628cb1 SHA-1: 1feef4771d47f9deb35ea30e1dc3522e68f1c261 SHA-256: 76b3aada4e0601d5dcde13bba65349f8d0d3ed166d08654ef333e7ac41474663
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains multiple embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The heuristic 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' confirms this, indicating an attempt to lure users to harmful sites. The 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' heuristic suggests a large number of outbound links, likely for SEO manipulation or to obscure the malicious destination. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, limiting further analysis of the exact lure.

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.com/pify?keyword=algebra+di+lie+pdf
    • http://files.rcm-asheboro.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775714/20fb50aa0718.pdf
    • http://files.alhasoob.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740461/tabevubibipit.pdf
    • http://files.allabouttrumpet.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814976/bovutesudoki.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1642/1529/files/78472722360.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4447/0945/files/41979826166.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8577/4491/files/bejitavuvizezuwube.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9318/1081/files/soginenumimajixuvi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/kemulubu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2830/6341/files/98508529026.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1939/3448/files/27318680501.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3489/4755/files/mefupemuweri.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2723/2918/files/tokugixak.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/xekosipavejidowusa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9654/7232/files/30726801649.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/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000079aa.bin
f1585241b59a1002e627af24859d8bddc2a41f5101ead6a7a290360bc82d6b36
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79AA 2912 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000840f.bin
f0b496ecb2b5b77e93ed9d6477a90449309e367a171dfe50b8519a32b92e4578
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x840F 4652 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000093e4.bin
e55a719fbca9bb90c4f3395d60625e8fa707ed84750d4772691ba216cdd246f9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x93E4 13464 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0000bed0.bin
b08ea9350701f3666e8bcfc882b103c5206c3ed97749c192c3d228e82254f475
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBED0 16304 bytes