Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dadedb4118447278…

MALICIOUS

PDF

109.5 KB Created: 2020-08-30 14:16:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: dcbf111c718ca100e30235fa55c4ead5 SHA-1: 989d3f50a66f43804dc31572874a86e5acd921c3 SHA-256: dadedb411844727843c583b8c4f55379abfa2d9106a865da739033e14b1d3a2b
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple heuristics indicating a malicious redirector link and an advance-fee scam lure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that is also listed in the heuristics as a malicious redirector. This suggests the document is designed to trick the user into visiting a malicious site, likely for financial gain through a scam.

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.
  • Advance-fee lottery/parcel scam lure high SE_ADVANCE_FEE_SCAM_LURE
    Document contains lottery/beneficiary or prize language together with large-value draft/funds wording and parcel/courier delivery requirements. This is a classic advance-fee fraud document shape.
  • 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.com/wix?keyword=earth+wind+fire+songs
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6376/9243/files/94671861752.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9478/4665/files/history_of_3d_printing_technology.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4204/5090/files/xigetidixodigozima.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1241/5911/files/aged_care_guide_perth.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/c0fca2_90360bd748344efc85a78f0c6a4c126c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bbc68f1b29804bc09ad3a108ee8fc692.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/822ecd_24993cc5478947328a9dfd3106a0648f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8b2c09_635d6c615d424747a73a8b61ef4d750d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3e9e83_fccca605af7b4975a4af92df0eb9969e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/05900a_55229dec78644f61923f45a7054c912f.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0664/7707/files/paradise_lost_book_1.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9496/6429/files/general_chemistry_11th_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6819/4978/files/gemusefovigexetopegotaf.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000162b5.bin
59d67f8c1cbaa4affc37d4a1cc884c4a3849eeff03da71c18cebc436ff54bfa8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x162B5 4976 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000173aa.bin
e3b4bac0a6aed7def54f99c6859442fde1fc5c3b98662dbee23b130c736d25d0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x173AA 11776 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00019ae3.bin
ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19AE3 4324 bytes