Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aad4a3bdc63c1475…

MALICIOUS

PDF

64.8 KB Created: 2020-08-23 21:12:07 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: eac30ee7757cba163adfdd4d2984739f SHA-1: 54f29fc12764a488f3ef2a71d67132b2f0c7cac9 SHA-256: aad4a3bdc63c14752922279662b0e6a43d3d313939f154b700a4811a6182d838
138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a mass of external links, many of which point to a link farm designed for SEO manipulation. One critical heuristic identified a malicious redirector link, which is a common technique for delivering malware or phishing pages. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be part of this link farm. The presence of a 'handwritten receipt template' lure combined with the malicious redirector suggests a phishing or malware delivery attempt.

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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=handwritten+receipt+template+word
    • http://files.doorwaystoadventure.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383575/laliwowupumo.pdf
    • http://nefefajun.bsr-project.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406717/3de1064fab250.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2327/7973/files/possessivpronomen_deutsch_tabelle.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1122/7300/files/22303779896.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0962/2687/files/unanswered_calls_do_not_go_to_voicemail.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4457/7178/files/winekes.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3293/6605/files/benzophenone_msds.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9070/5574/files/capitalizing_titles.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4606/0710/files/norfolk_southern_rail_map.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5723/3576/files/40251900946.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/19252536586.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9758/7861/files/minecraft_pc_apk_1._12.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3346/8839/files/wejowobuditej.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0223/8875/files/pmay_offline_application_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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000b720.bin
dd7b880f1c6958317b71933e3175eb4154b1281d355b69180e4ce829e506ee21
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB720 2828 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000c11a.bin
8cb23da5db65b6adcf1e736127f3e65f69c790334b80429e46af73859782ce49
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xC11A 5096 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000d25e.bin
59655e5a99a365a5cf3147989cbca2efa833143c7f2de1fe35aa2c68c0abde08
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD25E 9932 bytes