Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e67ea01b8eeb4c0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.9 KB Created: 2020-08-20 02:43:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: d0b47e32bd8ea1552df2d031f5f45b18 SHA-1: ae2626a34ab0d13fcc640f2771d0080ed79df0a6 SHA-256: 7e67ea01b8eeb4c0982cba1c441ee979171d008a7e79303904522b8a72fc8096
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, which is also present in the document body. This link leads to a large farm of SEO-optimized PDF files hosted on Shopify.com, suggesting a link-building or traffic-driving scheme. The presence of a 'download button' lure further supports the malicious intent of directing users to external content.

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=label+for+jars+template
    • http://files.techlab106.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681030/dikodimavularir.pdf
    • http://files.corkscrewcollectors.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874122/kijikedatosan.pdf
    • http://files.100lifelessonswithsistergirl.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437515/gerokezi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5271/1586/files/55414417420.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2698/7680/files/53475815207.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5072/9634/files/99947565250.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4687/1974/files/nikirulafadawow.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9888/9621/files/30645872116.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1829/7245/files/mazeke.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2062/9654/files/comelec_barangay_election_campaign_guidelines_2018.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9054/2743/files/japetuj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4782/8133/files/rusoxefowegovukosi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/3816/8472/files/89981352764.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005100.bin
6f88e4b203c9330d68709cb5c17928bb37a227f646a122b214448a68dacc297c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5100 4836 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006178.bin
eb90441139f6f3ea92b72075ae0193b836288bb5edfe1ffb305d844beddb8a08
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6178 10496 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000084dd.bin
0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x84DD 4324 bytes