Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9ea6ca0a2ab5d3cf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

54.1 KB Created: 2020-08-08 23:01:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 870ef55ca3b9b88e7b12cba9781f488a SHA-1: 8717a65762ff09072d99224c08ccd689d9ba806c SHA-256: 9ea6ca0a2ab5d3cfb5bee41da062255d6fbae9dd9725a7bee0ec812450674dea
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link that redirects to a known malicious domain, identified by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body and embedded links suggest a lure to download further content, likely malicious, under the guise of "current affairs pdf". The PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a large number of external links, many pointing to Shopify, which are likely part of a link farm to improve search engine ranking for malicious content. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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/pify?keyword=bankers+adda+current+affairs+pdf+december+2020
    • http://files.dmfw223.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683330/gofefida.pdf
    • http://files.andersonpurse.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813736/sujusunewufafusib.pdf
    • http://files.condzellasfarm.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874435/d6a5574e75.pdf
    • http://files.s2ccinema.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407465/ferifimiv-buxoxuj.pdf
    • http://files.barefoottraveler.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814926/fagup_wigika.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5955/2166/files/58265518790.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9807/1450/files/66306551815.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9901/2766/files/certificate_of_completion_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2857/6416/files/java_programming_for_beginners_mark_lassoff.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5498/0507/files/93525232286.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1292/2264/files/kejusot.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/tivaluzisezulumavolo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6961/2966/files/58895101484.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0655/6320/files/laguvuroru.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2998/7489/files/diraxorozotigoduxomozexul.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4343/8244/files/100_canciones_y_acordes_de_guitarra_gratis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6651/3818/files/65130871301.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_off0000851b.bin
0e02e9e55acf85b94525dc885e0c246aac59a5f60f1a5e3622abe681b3217e5b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x851B 5568 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000097e7.bin
56050281733fb9aed8ffa80153506fe6a15d551a92f1b88f0f14c15d7b44bfde
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x97E7 10760 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000bc75.bin
05d2457133b820fa77aa358e30e9acfbad3f04c46ced9a37296d9311117db176
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBC75 4324 bytes