Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8aa15058ca680761…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.3 KB Created: 2020-08-25 03:19:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 998bd37e3018943c30c6007124dee9f5 SHA-1: 04dfdc8e32805e8e40622f4482c8a92d4254fa26 SHA-256: 8aa15058ca6807612b017933b4a68657c93afaaf69191e644ef9b4257ec01dd3
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm and a direct link to a malicious redirector, disguised as a lure for cracked software. The document body contains text related to 'Ableton live 9 suite full crack' and includes the malicious URL. The presence of numerous links, many pointing to Shopify-hosted PDFs, suggests a link farm designed to improve search engine ranking for malicious content or to obscure the ultimate destination.

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=ableton+live+9+suite+full+crack
    • http://files.ruhlandmandolins.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776776/vazizuta.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/4255/9384/files/luwopasokepejuzokiguzenix.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8749/5321/files/jopaponofopazafe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5195/6894/files/27585424935.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4062/8118/files/orthogonal_collocation_with_finite_element_method.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1785/4366/files/13723707640.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/8496/7077/files/adobe_illustrator_cs6_for_windows_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9289/4115/files/57787837420.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1311/1961/files/tumiguxebezakinosesud.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9574/3907/files/28925353251.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6717/1223/files/abacus_maths_free_download.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_off00005870.bin
81e88a941796b7e4f83288a6ac4cbca6109335392aa11d7626b3c9b96795b853
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5870 5284 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006a83.bin
ffd81b1eab5e6fb0477cb0c6a4de4f264d3ff9f64ff30746ccdfb649b8cd4ebc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A83 15692 bytes