Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c958c39751cb767f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.3 KB Created: 2020-08-07 14:54:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: ba295da30669f47ab96212316eb07c2e SHA-1: 998f33e454186f3797744a8524bd59745f490984 SHA-256: c958c39751cb767fabc44a4f187e3d677035cc6ef4330059ba507d430fe9652e
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a redirector service. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'architectural design books pdf free download' and a URL that appears to be a lure. The presence of a password-protected archive lure suggests an attempt to bypass security controls by encrypting the actual payload. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL.

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.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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=architectural+design+books+pdf+free+download
    • http://files.horseplayandharmony.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969935/5ae28c8d68bd.pdf
    • http://files.vgyachtdesign.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380107/wixedu_penedojiwenoge_jiwajojifige_fefugipolerereb.pdf
    • http://files.unionhillumc.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453250/basopotenap.pdf
    • http://files.marff.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813972/48924ba10f297.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0775/2861/files/tamofewugovesimewuwipij.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5084/1750/files/98703122354.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/69296453687.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0655/6320/files/72342126342.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6939/1527/files/safoxuginexuvunifikopowi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8993/5002/files/hardware_acceleration_chrome.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0768/0405/files/18141070777.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8319/2727/files/62892571636.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2376/0536/files/doxigibav.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/tikifulodu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4887/6702/files/23290750550.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9861/9557/files/33575020967.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1543/0559/files/xasudikameferu.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_off00006482.bin
9e8c848d051ecd2b2dc5734f22ef5b36347f2942c84492add1c7d176469509a8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6482 5700 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000077ed.bin
fba16fb7c5cf8a04da81bd6770e528c2ae3a45fe2f6155f0ca19a5d8a952e33b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77ED 10380 bytes