Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee97d3891bcd05cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

86.8 KB Created: 2020-08-31 13:19:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 833c92f10f1ad1c9166e25e87da67120 SHA-1: b38773eb7a976ecc83f538deae4643015ecf7510 SHA-256: ee97d3891bcd05ccedd722b3369628cb9abc30dc46c964ec920ac3f0fa995233
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains heuristics indicating it's a malicious redirector and part of an advance-fee scam lure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text that appears to be a 'gladiator screenplay pdf' lure, and an embedded URL points to a redirector. The primary purpose seems to be to redirect the user to a malicious site for further exploitation or phishing.

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.
  • Advance-fee lottery/parcel scam lure high SE_ADVANCE_FEE_SCAM_LURE
    Document contains lottery/beneficiary or prize language together with large-value draft/funds wording and parcel/courier delivery requirements. This is a classic advance-fee fraud document shape.
  • 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/wix?keyword=gladiator+screenplay+pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/58097506778.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/1726/3510/files/larezodaxadudad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/zeranosorijajigafa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3864/4136/files/77104000001.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0976/7584/files/33050749862.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1898/5370/files/damapozo.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/7d1dc9_64f22bf49fd24b128159f00ebd442c1e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/23b571_8d9dd1e6be1c48808c8931ff71055a5e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9d6ac805ccef4705aeed88c6bf67e36f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_32670b0590fe4fc5aa7cd4b384ef9b24.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/451461_9c7814fb4fdf44098f85271d9cfb6146.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/3aca14_605e3de42bc44eda98c897b973a12ce0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/dcfb95_bdb96cc4e9c54fecb6224c2738b8d34a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_31862c9f39b64637ba7bac4ac87c4ad1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a771bd_18a4618e3ab84da6bb1e4432ca2bb13d.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/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/fil

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010ac0.bin
5c7bc964d72019ab733bb04ccfc45095d2f62eafa2080bbeab27766f29a130eb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10AC0 5280 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00011cd8.bin
32982c369c506f38e2357fa2c15de82cfd4bac408e3f222e3d5708c158f25dbc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CD8 15852 bytes