Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 afc9975624f8bd25…

MALICIOUS

PDF

346.3 KB Created: 2015-08-29 11:08:25 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.2.4 (via Qt 4.8.6)
MD5: 533f0e59333d2704ecab230c823c8242 SHA-1: 4b10d021ccacd85fcdf7ab33e60ccf7c78e4b059 SHA-256: afc9975624f8bd25a4aa357a65108274544672604f5a82003ecc18eac1e978e1
60 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link to a known malicious redirector, botcraftman.ru. This suggests the document is designed to trick the user into visiting a compromised or malicious website, likely for further exploitation or credential harvesting. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was heavily obfuscated, limiting further analysis of the exact lure.

Heuristics 2

  • 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.
  • 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 http://botcraftman.ru/?lip&keyword=Samsung+r25+plus++windows+7&charset=utf-8
    • http://img1.liveinternet.ru/images/attach/c/7//4829/4829999_reshebniki__po__geometrii_.pdf
    • http://img0.liveinternet.ru/images/attach/c/7//4830/4830035_nfs__underground__1920_.pdf
    • http://img1.liveinternet.ru/images/attach/c/7//4829/4829983_activesync_.pdf

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00051e10.bin
f3e7ded85bcd2a947f1224e2bb82d6c8883a4c18e19ec4961dd3c7802087a1ab
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x51E10 9696 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00053911.bin
c2ab928ed5e61d75229d4ab0b126e74f16c226cf161877cec779565305f1d54c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x53911 15828 bytes