Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 de7b461553328cde…

MALICIOUS

PDF

51.8 KB Created: 2020-07-28 16:57:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 518903544ec8e6b0157d93199b87c990 SHA-1: 15e1f6572a5c0d810ef410b66dee941caabc7244 SHA-256: de7b461553328cde83fd6b5167fceeafa25639bcfb331ee3f25b53e0c5464622
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 a critical heuristic firing indicating a PDF link farm. One of the primary links points to a known malicious redirector, while others lead to a large collection of PDFs hosted on Shopify. The document body is heavily obfuscated and appears to be largely junk data, but the presence of the 'wkhtmltopdf' string suggests it was generated programmatically. The overall pattern suggests an attempt to leverage SEO or redirect users to malicious content.

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=mandolin+headstock+template
    • http://files.evelynwalters.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454496/92686.pdf
    • http://files.envirolawteachers.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437683/datudinezodawe-vuren-gifogi.pdf
    • http://files.educationalroboticsreview.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130873769/rifix-voveluxireveziz.pdf
    • http://files.brianknightresearch.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969809/1a6420a.pdf
    • http://files.brianknightresearch.com/uploads/1/3/0
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/85155057715.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9411/4465/files/zidumusumopebino.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7679/6057/files/kigonulumekobudapiv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/5025/1941/files/jedezufita.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9395/8560/files/jukububokem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0087/3631/files/65635097388.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5018/9478/files/92646459271.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0634/5895/files/92694211269.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9654/7230/files/75530014000.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7538/7043/files/fusufutakaraxexuruzu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7474/0639/files/wonorebax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2195/1391/files/fubojoresego.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/baxumedufimoval.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_off00008d1c.bin
1ef2d33584a7b7f0fe65bd08a56b6ce37a90d2aacd843aeed4dbdd575dcfc387
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8D1C 5072 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009e30.bin
d751de35392042683fcbc7aa38e39897752d6c1c2123a1c6cd149e3a392a7da6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9E30 10604 bytes