Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cafeeded89307aee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.2 KB Created: 2020-08-22 11:46:26 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: af05f8f18b173d26f8d5376af923d4b5 SHA-1: 0f6f3dbde84769179adaecf9a5f90376a16ba6a3 SHA-256: cafeeded89307aeeb2563b1817c57253ac1201d5172b9834c46c29270ae5b139
128 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 link farm hosted on Shopify. One of these links redirects to a known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body also contains a call-to-action phrase, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the malicious link. No scripts were extracted, and the primary malicious behavior appears to be the redirection to external malicious content.

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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=milestone+chalkboard+template+free
    • http://files.chiinharmony.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873876/9a5792b745a23.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2052/5461/files/xenefuvegemisaduwaz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7709/9935/files/wazipilofitowukesalod.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6331/1513/files/prezi_templates_powerpoint.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6394/3067/files/borenatokobi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/gomejalubewetilukifij.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5486/5320/files/99184953219.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9073/0405/files/65655443911.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9769/4109/files/beps_action_4_final_report.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5118/6336/files/18721801681.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/2915/7272/files/data_structures_and_algorithms_tutorialspoint.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4716/5850/files/fuxusabuvokupemoro.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8679/0304/files/69976866404.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7245/3797/files/86364522707.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_off00006229.bin
25955ec4123d5d01b47bab10b12da6c7496f8065163ac6f455bb8500ab513551
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6229 5604 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000750a.bin
f80d65e5cef00d84ce9119ef1f262b04ad5a2140e5682569a374c2b73b894877
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x750A 10232 bytes