Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b4518e4d515def08…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.4 KB Created: 2020-08-21 20:47:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 60b21831320604783f6c4743ada10465 SHA-1: 7ca0ade3fbbf28e2de9c6cfaad2649fd6a2325b2 SHA-256: b4518e4d515def08e3b70be878ae3880699cee6c7de6c9ae84fb4f313de9562d
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to a URL that spoofs a 'baltimore county police traffic accident reports' search. This URL is designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure. The document body contains this URL and other links, suggesting a social engineering lure to trick users into clicking the malicious link.

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=baltimore+county+police+traffic+accident+reports
    • http://files.johnblanke.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132303286/5245317.pdf
    • http://pomidebe.banginhardfireworks.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681482/tumipepesinez-fivigut-tipunuripokoge.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5497/1557/files/lujasewawesi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9739/1261/files/bar_graph_matplotlib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2307/2412/files/59857152894.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2129/5003/files/attack_on_titan_ova_no_regrets.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/jojanasesejunuveko.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/27360052690.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5021/2264/files/sustainable_building_design_manual_teri.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5428/5479/files/felijizepesezofufab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0496/0661/files/51780192133.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4910/6080/files/game_offline_android.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4853/2128/files/14320810450.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8278/4676/files/89441716277.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/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/file

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006355.bin
d872f575b3e48aed08105dac5133c0ea4c66c97e8a7c2b570a06eca66f09e404
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6355 5452 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000075d3.bin
f65550acb03e5cef4459a8c600a1cc80916df2a3b98f590a634b954a227f8357
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75D3 10020 bytes