Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98036809569b3fae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.8 KB Created: 2020-08-13 19:07:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 618908c4ccb8843826c5f3f0db85e948 SHA-1: f5cd2e3259ec9c319d8901f0ac69722b01b6ee04 SHA-256: 98036809569b3faeb015cb9627360a7000d420a90c0064b688edd07ebde83b57
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1200 Hardware Addends

The PDF file exhibits malicious behavior through a high density of embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains URLs that are part of a link farm, suggesting an attempt to manipulate search engine results or direct users to malicious content. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which is likely used to funnel victims to further stages of an attack.

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.ru/wb?keyword=assessment%20of%20semester%20system%20pdf
    • http://dogoxi.shamelesspress.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813528/wiwopejunamawu.pdf
    • http://files.asianairspace.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775201/8053209.pdf
    • http://bojafer.foothillmiddlecollege.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969060/1068611.pdf
    • http://jusowu.hscgeographyeconomicactivity.hsieteachers.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132710712/botewobigemop.pdf
    • http://files.knozeythetraveler.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969573/9280485.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/1436/0985/files/articulos_de_tanatologia_forense.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7338/6136/files/nutrient_agar_merck.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0189/6347/files/kajutuj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/4464/0667/files/29760972741.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6265/6165/files/37168147847.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2556/3801/files/38309881295.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4292/0869/files/75917984678.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2521/0263/files/apposer_une_signature_sur_un_document.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1311/8872/files/spencerian_practice_sheets.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9888/9635/files/jivoresoniremowot.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2936/3878/files/spelling_bee_grade_3_word_list.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8996/0861/files/bela_bartok_mikrokosmos_volume_1.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_off00005b24.bin
8009517652169ccdf1c7dd2fa10f7cb887691ceabff61213e24a35c9d840bcf5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B24 4776 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006b46.bin
27ac4a3959fefbda2c32cf4565c97b7df6b943f1bf0c109e58a8a911e4449c23
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B46 9612 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00008c20.bin
0d0f64e27578eb124b8bc81c7eceacdd166e22eddd95c81328e9fbd7de2a6333
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8C20 4324 bytes