Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9df1300ba1d79f17…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.9 KB Created: 2020-08-23 04:13:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3ded487d874c45b52ba8c6ca7d1d16b9 SHA-1: 88e5c69a1dda71b4d6be18e34a383491a4cd2fd8 SHA-256: 9df1300ba1d79f175c0e9a2d8d6fe774492c6059ebfd82ca43094dc87e167ee0
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link that redirects to a known malicious domain, disguised as a movie trailer. This is further supported by heuristics indicating a malicious redirector and a link farm. The document body contains obfuscated text and multiple embedded URLs, many of which point to Shopify, likely for SEO manipulation, but one critical URL leads to a redirector.

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.cc/pify?keyword=black+panther+movie+trailer+video
    • http://xurevasi.elizabethballare.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775403/5e4b8f2c646.pdf
    • http://files.chambersjewelry.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437660/gifiwu_wenezenu.pdf
    • http://files.miss-crumbs-a-lot.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696214/499234.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5254/7739/files/4885592660.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3123/2674/files/10607558491.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5848/7703/files/dupopomuzomajiluvadoka.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/7099/6889/files/cooktop_brastemp_4_bocas_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5257/1555/files/jadajowawikuvi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/0165/4935/files/baloncesto_definicion.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1332/5471/files/zaxuvafoginabebemupivogog.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5207/2089/files/hybridization_examples.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5655/4394/files/dipatidulunijewadana.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3494/3388/files/gebutaril.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0360/8216/files/fun_activities_for_esl_students.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_off0000646b.bin
51c1acf42dda5287a9413c92b1faa1d9ec829a45a61756622d42e1fcb9ca21b8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x646B 5308 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000764d.bin
54fb6f32fa9b357a4b8b19290b77c195846ce1331e5459456094ecfbf2caa003
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x764D 10732 bytes