Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a42b9759b42dd744…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.5 KB Created: 2020-08-24 03:14:46 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5630835a00e4fbf67b2b52663460fd4f SHA-1: 3dcc7eff4f1110ed27345b21810e2b73a42effa9 SHA-256: a42b9759b42dd74494a9e23f24588437a743b4657632c4d8ac71fcec46a66252
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF document contains a link that redirects to malicious infrastructure, as indicated by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the text 'Audit report writing format' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to trick the user into clicking the link. The PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates the presence of numerous external PDF links, likely for SEO manipulation or to obscure the malicious redirector. 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.cc/pify?keyword=audit+report+writing+format
    • http://files.thurlingguitars.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874063/3514529.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2115/3957/files/4831897939.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8764/3303/files/410_shotguns_prices.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1916/6119/files/31448505602.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8249/7696/files/94881569297.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8279/2606/files/38030367601.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7921/2959/files/risebamasakagefi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2440/7961/files/31318256034.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/3422/9398/files/63652370221.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/9725/8136/files/87816641704.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6041/0006/files/64869816954.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8172/8151/files/78717997330.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_off0000646f.bin
813da2b92701fca9aa7f142d2c00f49ddbac7005c2207c359e8968d0a1cd53b4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x646F 5232 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007639.bin
88d2114d87b0e90902eafbe3ef5ab18e3490fc4fb4ebcbe737acd2fd66d7ffb0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7639 10248 bytes