Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ea3e071ee650ed3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.5 KB Created: 2020-08-23 01:21:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f3c1ad8ae77f85dff4bdaca2a4ee19b8 SHA-1: 62c2e192032235790a1c6c7079e0b616efde1fba SHA-256: 9ea3e071ee650ed361016817b6c8d842d7ea6f3c913cb720a204e979d2c4a272
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.001 Malicious Link: Malicious Link

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, which is also present in the document body. This link is likely intended to trick the user into downloading a malicious file, as suggested by the 'SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON' heuristic. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous external links, some of which point to benign Shopify domains, but one points to a suspicious domain.

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=sql+server+2016+express++filehippo
    • http://xubefa.cvpfso.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738721/a1ecf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9907/8304/files/16273691468.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5780/6503/files/kujesen.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1804/2018/files/hallelujah_pentatonix_piano_sheet_music_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5514/4347/files/magistrates_sentencing_guidelines_drink_driving.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8731/4590/files/16156659391.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0456/4448/0679/files/bryson_tiller_don_t_lyrics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5040/1945/files/99503597085.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2398/3015/files/chikni_chameli_movie_songs.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6761/2065/files/quiz_nested_numbers_6-_10.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2187/6900/files/tagowol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7594/4091/files/96896086175.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_off0000726d.bin
cff6dee55babf4754cd64b07aa72a882e1d8ff4ee535cc3ae25c70e7378f4827
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x726D 5616 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008595.bin
95bfec2dd8502aee39a43315de469febb7af83f622dcc6595e2261d190a1506d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8595 11876 bytes