Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a41a9452902723ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

57.4 KB Created: 2020-08-18 15:05:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 8a1ba1dcd684ae11b299f4ecc3c544b1 SHA-1: 1e97617c7c014f07b607669144f1649db49fb8cf SHA-256: a41a9452902723ca51a82ba4e45864b77af2c89bf16f96346419cbe83c3ee1a9
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of external links, many pointing to Shopify-hosted PDF files, a technique often used for SEO poisoning or to host malicious content. One of the embedded URLs, https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=azhagendra+sollukku+muruga+song, is identified as a known malicious redirector. This suggests the document's primary purpose is to lure users to malicious infrastructure, likely for further exploitation or phishing.

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=azhagendra+sollukku+muruga+song
    • http://pokofa.ryanchiropracticclinic.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815002/vapofefizon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7142/2115/files/werivavuxaxuruki.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1141/3915/files/fotipudivonesobawuje.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9807/8372/files/nukevufuzafugisapavitoruj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9846/4661/files/wofamugojazivuwo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6581/8789/files/35939592203.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8425/1285/files/seziwunatidusi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5453/8658/files/51016102478.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3695/8106/files/15708619248.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4646/8769/files/miwopon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7658/2552/files/8925618139.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6577/8076/files/esl_154_practice_test.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1821/3797/files/ponunigep.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7017/4870/files/baringo_county_bursary_form.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 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000071c7.bin
e354f2bb646cd199865ab89ca673bb81758c9050f57c9a1997a32cd8598e1f3d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71C7 5344 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000083c3.bin
32681ced09192d5465fdfc8d5efb0b411cf56aa5fd603ca743b55f29edcc0594
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x83C3 4692 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009402.bin
d0966eb2581594400d6129fd245d04bbd9f0abec4e35634f229827feceef90f1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9402 15072 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0000c2be.bin
532315dfdc59b350d447ad91845dd8cc72a836e684f536ab9a4305dc5b53fb8e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC2BE 16204 bytes