Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9064d3edab5ef73b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

47.4 KB Created: 2020-07-28 18:32:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: db8449c3be5854a2161022bb547439bf SHA-1: 67c72dda7f9c5abe446d0726c353c58ea9206848 SHA-256: 9064d3edab5ef73b6e87929f22e456db73517d410a385a8bb2c4570f333fd8cd
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a high number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on cdn.shopify.com, and one critical link redirects to a known malicious redirector. The presence of a 'download' lure further supports the malicious intent. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear textual clues, but the heuristics strongly indicate a malicious redirection workflow.

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=avgn+adventures++free
    • http://files.nickibylina.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856041/puvozagolapak_vogogosu_fexujegizuf.pdf
    • http://files.youngmarys.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131607054/7011489.pdf
    • http://files.alternativestoviolencecourse.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483344/e9a974413685216.pdf
    • http://files.pinegrovecogop.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775515/29ad3dfe7ef8f87.pdf
    • http://files.alternativestoviolencecourse.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483344/e9a974
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2707/0104/files/69035448904.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0939/1261/files/wikupemetalusufefusoru.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5900/4070/files/vidawurewupatagibuv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4555/1271/files/boleworutovoz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4933/7507/files/96396203617.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8561/7566/files/89302089338.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9322/0758/files/71682939968.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7623/0047/files/lafiwemotaxovekugesibeni.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4074/1278/files/94133154364.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3453/3275/files/87725685022.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7056/3239/files/24240608552.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5167/0943/files/52253718155.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9063/2101/files/roxupoduza.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9419/5870/files/pirigubavofotedunaju.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_off00007213.bin
3d1cad4e9eccdab6491b3343afd8ed45a821d3b9741961229e104d59c6313222
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7213 4816 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008280.bin
a1e0b60dd2a619eabebbe067de1394f6da2e2602fbc3c1aa75d9cde178485b7e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8280 14392 bytes