Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8492fdb83035a90…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.9 KB Created: 2020-08-12 14:40:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5b8b28fc9e39bc65ceb973adab588cf7 SHA-1: 0a1ccced1764fe21638ac5d832676bdf83583fe4 SHA-256: e8492fdb83035a90a004790483913446dd1b237e8a88742cd3359f412aa55f1a
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with a primary URL pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the string 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=bergen+norway+map+pdf', indicating a lure to a malicious site. The presence of numerous Shopify URLs suggests an attempt to blend in with benign content while directing users to malicious infrastructure.

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=bergen+norway+map+pdf
    • http://files.amityschuyler.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437504/95f970a97d81.pdf
    • http://files.thebluedaisyandco.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681144/pesibogebofidasewa.pdf
    • http://files.helenefagerberg.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453062/pezezivedinutil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8828/1761/files/74753723697.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8197/3416/files/south_park_minecraft.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/zovoxumaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8014/7359/files/nuseruvaja.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/8112/5278/files/52176718860.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6471/1575/files/datibututakabezulogoborug.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6101/0842/files/girigigamojotebatigaj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5769/3347/files/30749212856.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/5678/9664/files/tazemexupukukebar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/vasopamomakazemujavinis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6759/6184/files/roland_barthes_mythologies_francais.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_off00005ed2.bin
5ebe1a29eaa16a1e562161b37e5d6f31ec15aeea6278be062bcc93c324d1bea7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5ED2 5392 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000712c.bin
5fa514fbe3272dc19efe26cdab55b50fc58a4204544be84369e0246743c6ccfc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x712C 11496 bytes