Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bd12cbaed8326bcb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.7 KB Created: 2020-08-14 18:42:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b9831ac13ba31fca3e7b1a880a78207c SHA-1: 0c11aa1ee567eb79af0f05c7b5ac90f4336a48a2 SHA-256: bd12cbaed8326bcb1436675e9d6bf5fb5588aa439368abf99692aaa6d523ac8f
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains multiple embedded URLs, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The heuristic 'PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK' indicates that this URL leads to known malicious infrastructure. Additionally, the 'PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM' heuristic suggests a large number of outbound links, with the primary one pointing to a Shopify domain. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and a benign-looking title, likely intended to trick the user into clicking the link. The urgency lure heuristic further supports the social engineering aspect of this attack.

Heuristics 4

  • 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
  • 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=water+test+positive+for+coliform
    • http://guteso.painandperformancesolutions.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969352/5994286.pdf
    • http://files.mercerjourney.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775195/da533.pdf
    • http://files.nokaloosacert.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437627/gazirezesuliwuk_fegawiwudusuvon_vifejunezow_petalim.pdf
    • http://files.asianhorizonltd.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813055/begavap.pdf
    • http://doxezexin.flattirestudios.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438641/c0dc82710c.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2742/3654/files/5984572948.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3477/9553/files/70922870808.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7394/6275/files/rukujemazul.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7673/1558/files/terexilepijolumetez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0722/1661/files/qualitative_analysis_of_cations_and_anions.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9651/4461/files/kegemunelovoguzazewu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0577/1927/files/55846549107.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1361/1421/files/naruto_ultimate_ninja_blazing_mod_apk_latest.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_off000076d7.bin
c37a731b286945f5485cb538a728e4e03cb7ace477f54e0d9d1ee408974b7fa4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x76D7 5232 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000889f.bin
988215b7325668f9804fdc90097ccf252ea18417520ab0edb501c5d7a0944b9a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x889F 9748 bytes