Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 969012c9910972b9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.9 KB Created: 2020-08-04 17:33:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 63f42c0260af6872b2550e12fa14cb43 SHA-1: 38525dab2d65dd09eaf6d72e56321bfcd05dffe1 SHA-256: 969012c9910972b9969cc0f30f965b971ef7e18df6dd7fbf4e8f7120b6629ad1
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a large number of external links, many of which are hosted on Shopify domains, suggesting a link farm for SEO poisoning. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at `https://ttraff.com/wb?keyword=iasb%20conceptual%20framework%20for%20financial%20reporting%202010%20pdf`. This indicates the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, likely for further exploitation or phishing.

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.com/wb?keyword=iasb%20conceptual%20framework%20for%20financial%20reporting%202010%20pdf
    • http://files.westmaui.org/uploads/1/3/2/3/132302871/niwegajepizeri.pdf
    • http://files.cathyleavittcreations.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776875/6f40ac.pdf
    • http://files.guskampfans.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130968988/nijolesejisow.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6893/9672/files/gumedoginedefur.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4658/2944/files/60346009432.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5529/9237/files/tunogerobixim.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7433/8472/files/dizupazixug.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6995/4453/files/lonugoxumusetire.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3353/4357/files/41099917260.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6789/1094/files/foxigijuwid.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3475/4728/files/fomopedelul.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6598/2632/files/rokazebawigadafuviriros.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0995/0367/files/285741192.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4529/6027/files/96851205649.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7969/5526/files/vakobebodizaletivex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6893/8658/files/32577614940.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0835/2679/files/93685847580.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7510/9018/files/92340525771.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_off00006edc.bin
c88d4ea7cf76a803b6688fa483275ab3be34dc18eea784f1d6e8849383bed53c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6EDC 6036 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008366.bin
4fb53fa61df4ab19f5ecaaaa893e198599c2529e79258bec3cd0fb9a54e8d8c7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8366 10040 bytes