Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a279163b49fb3e2d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.8 KB Created: 2020-08-26 13:53:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7210f8090b2c50757f3b11de37dd5ee7 SHA-1: 4b5ca1595d8caa109d2476aa2187cb4691447868 SHA-256: a279163b49fb3e2d0b2a62d70935e7117a4fbc032857c56b7f8c1d1bfd794781
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link that redirects to a malicious URL, identified by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text referencing 'Dungeon master's guide 1st edition' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to download potentially harmful content. The PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a large number of outbound links, further supporting a malicious intent to distribute content via a link farm.

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.me/pify?keyword=dungeon+master%2527+s+guide+1st+edition
    • http://jubed.anaeugeniophotography.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131069992/rutawov_gijuribunab_duvepepabuj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1653/4690/files/wemelepagumonabu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/6780/5591/files/nodasiranirax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5407/8883/files/atresia_pulmonar_congenita.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8532/2658/files/costanza_answering_machine_lyrics.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2602/2554/files/fozarowok.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5806/9655/files/zaxobajemipap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2067/1384/files/advanced_cardiac_life_support_provider_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0262/6202/files/wurefololesunip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/87294954422.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8942/8637/files/kerala_beverages_price_list.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6377/9236/files/12764865205.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5794/6522/files/ramorugugu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2022/1607/files/gepateraxigifu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0744/1053/files/padozi.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_off00007a54.bin
51d16bfff1aea99ca8a1593a821bb7bd0b1ba7edfb9927a5614e2814fc3376f0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A54 5080 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008b87.bin
b03d98e8ab32beba2705448ec4e6acc9904e253c36ce7402f4fa25518603c7fd
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8B87 10684 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000b01c.bin
9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB01C 4324 bytes