Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ea9615730e61e321…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.2 KB Created: 2020-08-19 00:56:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 71da774fb1994f4ba60068056e1e21a1 SHA-1: 000fd14d1414126724fb58ddf2abc312cdf8bf7e SHA-256: ea9615730e61e321d4a0f3ad9b742302dbff4f58928189c0f501508ed9d587b1
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous links, with a critical heuristic identifying a malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, includes text related to 'Australian government superannuation standard choice form', suggesting a phishing lure. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which is likely used to funnel victims to a malicious 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=australian+government+superannuation+standard+choice+form
    • http://lilonewex.cottagegrovechamber.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814017/zitokuf-pusek-sumasitov-bufepipapet.pdf
    • http://dewepivuz.epicfh.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379685/sonufemeradarop.pdf
    • http://files.getbackpainfree.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452981/jekemejiw.pdf
    • http://files.eghsbandboosters.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384679/mutedij.pdf
    • http://files.onoff-oddob.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738596/5004076.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9524/4441/files/descargar_libros_de_gustavo_adolfo_becquer.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3706/4348/files/define_sanitation.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0118/4417/files/47430616204.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9639/9269/files/cerere_concediu_odihna.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/46287179129.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1780/3675/files/acoustic_impedance.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6213/2897/files/fananotudadekevivob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2875/0241/files/93127242006.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5100/8671/files/62546202113.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5004/1495/files/malaria_infection.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_off000068a2.bin
f369de83b0f578044ecb7e5004beae73d39f05c6d5a07499e904b4726f208c17
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x68A2 5620 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007b9c.bin
ae55b715c4d5538730568e01e56ac0ed78803a9456e4a382749c610e3e066619
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B9C 10392 bytes