Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aceea617c595df71…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.9 KB Created: 2020-08-20 02:57:35 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 80f173b5934d8176b15c194c42b89e84 SHA-1: 1b8252a3b0415db53a203c84a1f6533cd20fee6b SHA-256: aceea617c595df71ed9bae413e52ebb9d0d31942ce5a66ecba723cddf069c0b5
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, many of which point to a known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that matches the one identified by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. This suggests the document's primary purpose is to redirect users to malicious sites, likely for further exploitation or phishing. The presence of multiple shopify.com links, while some are benign, is part of a larger link farm strategy to improve search engine ranking for malicious content.

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=medical+biochemistry+questions+and+answers+pdf
    • http://files.stemdreamrecruiters.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379456/3555624.pdf
    • http://vudaxu.lowernorthcoastdancefestival.com.au/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813765/vaxuwagukowu.pdf
    • http://files.southerncrosselearning.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070561/sovon.pdf
    • http://files.circlecamps.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606730/b0e2093e09ee96d.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5794/6519/files/beginning_yoga_routine.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3391/9645/files/dubalofuduromizevigone.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7886/0454/files/12694590300.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9986/5756/files/latest_mac_os.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7152/8344/files/79220039995.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7877/9029/files/gexinipetavotilivawofadij.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7426/4996/files/dobudedazoxaxuko.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0224/6814/files/zebrafish_brain_atlas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3735/9271/files/alison_bechdel_are_you_my_mother.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3127/2351/files/cemento_dental_definicion.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3593/5398/files/kawasaki_z750s_2006.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5167/0943/files/a_monster_calls_patrick_ness.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_off0000531c.bin
c3097933ff1fe7ec0bf0b63f3b3cc5037112523497df04222e1a294e7edc2632
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x531C 5740 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000667c.bin
f5e55a0e60409b4e2b137b6e89ff361b421157101158fd2b51f8872451d6e50a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x667C 9952 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00008843.bin
cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8843 4324 bytes