Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8575dbca5b5e7123…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.2 KB Created: 2020-08-22 21:01:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 1648a1a6888ed32469dadf9fdfa6fd37 SHA-1: fad3a11a1878bc28b1c63b062f6094824d96088a SHA-256: 8575dbca5b5e712367e05b15c62e946feb46cf48f2e294dfe158ab69f35e2f06
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link that redirects to a malicious domain, identified by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'sales manager weekly report templates' and includes the malicious URL, suggesting a lure. The PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, which is a common tactic for distributing malicious documents. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL.

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.com/pify?keyword=sales+manager+weekly+report+templates
    • http://befijefon.brazoriacad.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776823/vutenokagezar-gogoza-xefanupo.pdf
    • http://tifitix.alexasnyderstudio.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637136/8468623.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9629/4051/files/knewton_alta_answer_key.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0392/6939/files/klb_biology_book_1.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1610/0776/files/tujasozokexopijupesil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/nasodidupafulad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8005/5958/files/wigojalomamibaz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/5309/4811/files/fekikarirekexukilelifis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5385/8472/files/46316304311.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8885/5718/files/3610956047.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2331/9715/files/45698974344.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2032/8853/files/riff_raff_instagram.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5427/7532/files/definition_of_family_planning_according_to_who.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/4448/2717/files/vasant_panchami_hd_images_free.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_off00005fa9.bin
771e4a7446f2e05e695112874d4bd4cc720e566c65724346c69bf878f1afc616
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5FA9 5500 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007255.bin
476bf66352af6c75d3784b62e1107ddb8e5a858c0d5096ee1882ecb94ed167e5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7255 9892 bytes