Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1be75949dbc2f05…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.9 KB Created: 2020-08-27 17:14:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4a02ff34e6d909ca1f4866148ba6a4a6 SHA-1: ade568132f9d5533cdcc37dfe383490c28d6722c SHA-256: a1be75949dbc2f05404298d886c077e71486b6a2a5071c33dc2d4fbe6807340c
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. This suggests the document is designed to lure users to malicious sites. The presence of a link farm indicates a potential SEO manipulation tactic, possibly to improve the ranking of 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=ob+gyn+secrets
    • http://files.boneschool.net/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437683/pimumapogeju.pdf
    • http://files.sccellars.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739147/kalusuwopogode_famifumut_xavofeb_figurunesoleli.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9095/8749/files/half_and_quarter_of_shapes_worksheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1400/3610/files/google_wifi_factory_reset.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2412/0984/files/693979618.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0457/3734/5180/files/describe_your_education_sample_answer.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0463/4869/7757/files/test_de_pinche_de_cocina_sergas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5703/5929/files/cotswolds_guided_tours_co_uk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6159/8613/files/10984991205.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9102/4280/files/bidoguzutasiwisifu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2544/7587/files/kawasaki_220_bayou.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/4819/6506/files/kivatu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/1312/8867/files/83090995279.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_off00005a36.bin
2c5262eed8267bb484cf12d4dde12c4a0c38324f719a369c01cd17c50aafde78
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A36 4996 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006b4b.bin
be0bdcbddf1d780f1666b83bb11183b5c9c422b41f4485bde5429d54c7e37cff
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B4B 10772 bytes