Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e716dd32379896a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.6 KB Created: 2020-08-16 20:50:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 888d985237b5c162a6e6beea4c3e796c SHA-1: f0e1c680e5f84ec5d3f727d95b0c06adf7bb3993 SHA-256: e716dd32379896a33facfd57ecad75d526b6e3a5beb5a902f590f2c9d9864641
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a malicious redirector link disguised as a song ringtone, which is a common lure for phishing attacks. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same lure text and the malicious URL. The heuristic firings confirm the presence of a malicious redirector and a link farm, indicating an attempt to distribute further malicious content. The 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' heuristic suggests that this PDF might be a precursor to delivering a password-protected archive, a technique used to evade initial security scans.

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.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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.ru/pify?keyword=happy+birthday+to+you+song++ringtone
    • http://files.gabriellemoulding.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813528/wapazo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6393/4109/files/rizobanojit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/53551688275.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4624/7332/files/muzafotumutafanate.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6118/2617/files/ea_sports_cricket.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/xamunodobesezuwenetubaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4106/2040/files/54100561804.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5436/6877/files/98527155885.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/mujunevuduw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9504/6824/files/patuborunuxuvalewofali.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6283/4853/files/85035163433.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2276/1635/files/putazalepituvuxovadomez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2949/5959/files/golala.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6656/3487/files/nigarofutijevonavanelis.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_off000060df.bin
0b522aced21aceeaa880b07c0cebfaf30d4b4731f0b41fde515e8bb57716c699
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x60DF 5392 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007322.bin
24ae781a80d929a8d62defbff5a1fd3bf897d3eda673e0d3b5160638e8dc23c6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7322 10040 bytes