Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e36ff8f8a782336…

MALICIOUS

PDF

60.7 KB Created: 2020-08-10 03:42:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4117da361685d8648d4da09146aabbb8 SHA-1: fddbf9208f19f73970d3ae705b598229cff25b60 SHA-256: 7e36ff8f8a782336af6fd07b2bb82a6a1593077cb63c31e482214eeb00d559e4
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains multiple embedded links, with one critical heuristic identifying a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL that triggers this heuristic. The presence of a link farm further suggests an attempt to lure users to malicious content. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of direct execution capabilities.

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/pify?keyword=types+of+biotic+interactions+pdf
    • http://files.terryrich.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874030/nolorux.pdf
    • http://files.guidancebylori.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637109/figapuxubik.pdf
    • http://files.francesandkevin2019.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740521/gopidomuva.pdf
    • http://files.lisaglauer.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739052/1269297.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/1335/5166/files/72229830177.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2201/4870/files/el_almohadon_de_plumas_y_otros_cuentos_horacio_quiroga.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9888/9635/files/rexil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/8423/9268/files/acres_of_diamond_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3701/5719/files/houghton_mifflin_math_grade_1.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1708/2792/files/45507032245.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5804/3797/files/webmd_portion_size_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8897/7813/files/45370963548.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8590/5576/files/baluniruwekasoraw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5195/8947/files/git_get_all_branches.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3149/3784/files/ganegabikugube.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/1144/4634/files/fish_names_and_pictures.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_off0000ae9d.bin
9642db547918526f60fda1de2db4654ec19d528b6f9987021ba9b3054085d7f8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE9D 5308 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000c0bf.bin
d36f724612a92dfc6ec89af4a91d4e6e80232c0052e7598748102568858f770a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC0BF 11412 bytes