Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cda6f59836f33abf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

60.7 KB Created: 2020-08-26 00:48:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 483c07ba1cbaf9a86201fb94400709e7 SHA-1: 205e01dc6a44322429c8dca03fb6100690325fea SHA-256: cda6f59836f33abf6c2f7fc3a04b74c03492440f44c2260c270fd2b24dcd75dd
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with one URL pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'essentials of health care marketing pdf' and includes the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into downloading further malicious content. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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=essentials+of+health+care+marketing+pdf
    • http://files.jbmilart.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132696506/xebinarujeva_zawisige_donapajobi_fovavenomewodog.pdf
    • http://files.deshlerchamber.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814353/zorodoribufozu.pdf
    • http://files.chrystalgrimleydesigns.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437162/puneke.pdf
    • http://files.elderlawkc.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695306/3243f3.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7241/4106/files/11662583186.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8336/6551/files/47507695787.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0460/6951/4404/files/dermatology_network_solutions_provider_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8147/2929/files/application_format_for_teaching_job_in_college.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1825/5510/files/jivusoxu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/5129/3603/files/something_s_cooking_d_d.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4845/9673/files/74198990580.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/31443612403.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5679/9647/files/6001581028.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6987/5111/files/50761321009.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7044/5975/files/the_sustainable_business_case_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1713/4502/files/pip_camera_photo_effect.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2137/7434/files/41623474369.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9163/8934/files/serogemori.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_off0000a594.bin
0c89d755b401b32eaf6e924545041a47454dac518df48cf4caadc47c994b2d37
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA594 5592 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000b868.bin
7c5a0ae9d13107702d3ce7a9be1a51a24829b1ba689a82e884a1a6210c6be61b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB868 14276 bytes