Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d2a16568c93fbc79…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.5 KB Created: 2020-08-08 17:21:16 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 70d94fb102cda6b866b3c41be2029602 SHA-1: ffe3db7ec6e177a582232787a8b5f049da637d10 SHA-256: d2a16568c93fbc796b2abb1e14203dd0a228d21c086bb7a8bb38deacd9424988
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1200 Hardware Add-in Systems T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with one identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text referencing 'Pdf file format specification tutorial' and includes the malicious redirector URL. The presence of a link farm heuristic further indicates an attempt to drive traffic to external sites. 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/wb?keyword=pdf%20file%20format%20specification%20tutorial
    • http://files.aprilsurgent.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163579/rorerekulaz_beluxarisilofi.pdf
    • http://files.camillachester.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438156/1388210.pdf
    • http://files.cleancooks.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969206/pepejipator-nepotan-vevim.pdf
    • http://files.mortarboardatucla.org/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070604/xijetujena-xugufaxewegef-nifix.pdf
    • http://files.eastonhungercoalition.org/uploads/1/3/0/9/130968985/075d1acda.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0536/1821/files/79536306078.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0323/9840/files/beden_dili_kitaplar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/97072231683.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4759/8742/files/ritabopobaxeropezuwo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1331/5480/files/46548188466.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3363/2678/files/wawinurisadulo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4313/4362/files/asymptotic_notation_in_data_structure_with_example.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/0889/0792/files/52019179809.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/1049/0519/files/bronchiolitis_guidelines.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7623/0046/files/merge_two_sorted_arrays.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/13578549785.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7274/9721/files/ccna_routing_and_switching_lab_workbook.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_off00006972.bin
548939c19124a542369101522d1e03482445b960451350308c0c306cb1d94737
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6972 5300 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007b62.bin
8b905198968190b0016b53505489847afdd55e61663e8049488f9ed93223b273
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B62 9812 bytes