Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dba8574dc0623d31…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.7 KB Created: 2020-08-16 23:49:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 6202ef30ccf12ece0ce521362b83a545 SHA-1: 9cc6edb6a3fab7149d78f662ceec664ed080a97a SHA-256: dba8574dc0623d31576ca91acd5c54def169c67587e61afafc096936b6652823
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a significant number of embedded links, with one pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains the same malicious URL and several benign-looking Shopify URLs, suggesting a link farm or spam campaign. The primary attack pattern involves luring users through these links, likely to a phishing or malware distribution site.

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=dremel+router+template+guide
    • http://files.whitenightspr.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406827/jezedozasuwunu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7945/0272/files/5e_money_conversion.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8868/3932/files/benasidazunepazikapabeber.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4679/5424/files/running_man_ep_354.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7194/7430/files/44434870672.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2186/8960/files/78402203000.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2428/4824/files/19242791221.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4667/4336/files/kagepasu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0443/8137/2582/files/fusovinetibo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1301/2630/files/perijosetokonogona.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/16711599054.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5516/9182/files/markup_text_discord.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_off0000571d.bin
dd703b21693e4ceefcf0ef79996f5fc2ee0fad88858d00c5c9622ad0a6db8509
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x571D 5100 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006860.bin
5da72cfc8df0d91a993d1b871723f208d33cea8116b9b9314b59ea1d63d1dbb0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6860 10064 bytes