Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a128bb4a227efda8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.3 KB Created: 2020-08-11 23:27:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9675a638fa24d580f2096a8fe909eb2a SHA-1: ab499ae3281beeed47d16c80d848979d8d4e48a4 SHA-256: a128bb4a227efda8534c5f26f434b4bd9c635f3d170ec7522b867928d791bcc8
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external resources, a common tactic for SEO poisoning or link farming. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector, 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=buchungss%25C3%25A4tze+%25C3%25BCbungsaufgaben+mit+l%25C3%25B6sungen+pdf', suggesting this PDF is part of a campaign to distribute malware or conduct phishing. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to 'Buchungssätze Übungsaufgaben mit Lösungen pdf', indicating a lure to disguise the malicious intent.

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=buchungss%25C3%25A4tze+%25C3%25BCbungsaufgaben+mit+l%25C3%25B6sungen+pdf
    • http://rixiruvas.habihabi.ca/uploads/1/3/1/0/131071157/5d0e93103.pdf
    • http://files.b2w2.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776493/4491969.pdf
    • http://koves.relativeautonomy.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775350/3661193.pdf
    • http://dukun.gabrielletrinca.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775403/6046b196.pdf
    • http://files.dbassettroofing.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132682990/seloful-jujevimovukivig-biwokosunar-litujevudogubo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/sovir.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6112/5013/files/tuvuxiditadirefuw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2156/4066/files/jojokibo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3015/1330/files/toveve.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0707/4723/files/atsg_automatic_transmission_repair_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4718/2759/files/53452348292.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3943/9510/files/35540914088.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6107/4333/files/supplementary_budget.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4003/8302/files/63467250103.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3081/4626/files/bcom_hons_books_free_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/rerotapok.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7719/7221/files/76566153074.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_off00005d18.bin
27ec8912e191101554af041b43fbc957a0d1269154d91bfb2661e87a727bd6b7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D18 6204 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007106.bin
a6c5d8a98b4b28bfaf4b2ceb0947aeedbe17b8cf163fca7b675b881ef26c26ae
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7106 11184 bytes