Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc09e281313a910d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.1 KB Created: 2020-08-29 23:57:23 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 924a7547de10a9d9da56a54b88e07c28 SHA-1: 9fc7694b60e3eda28dd26c91d4cd1947ab4edc2f SHA-256: dc09e281313a910d389741bf7d0a1b83ba6cf7635724983954fdf7e1ab56aff8
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though partially corrupted, includes text related to building a real estate empire and a URL that appears to be a lure. This suggests the PDF is designed to trick users into clicking the malicious link, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

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/wix?keyword=how+to+build+a+real+estate+empire+book+pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7510/7992/files/teoria_sociologista_del_delito.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4016/9384/files/9364748636.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/8407/9264/files/53273591307.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_bcd8973795be41eb839cd04e31656ea2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a30bd4417cc747f2a982e68f11f48e9b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_99bc11497dc34e3d9d1ab12ef2ae3b82.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/238140_4fb394c47669441f9c059534ff26604d.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5963/2545/files/40142850101.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0167/5939/files/counterparty_credit_risk_collateral_and_funding_brigo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0461/5084/4579/files/top_secret_apps_for_android.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0519/0041/files/what_is_opportunity_cost_in_economics.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_off00007184.bin
fa8bdd2029ccf51ce921ee7c2adfacaa8a3be6384b90c23fb55958666ff570e7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7184 5444 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000083f9.bin
fa0b7d7439f0a385ac6a2e50960e230421f080541d4b1c008093d866ff72bcd3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x83F9 10500 bytes