Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee9960e5b9769a98…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.7 KB Created: 2020-08-10 07:41:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 62cbca33c9ea772a8c81dce2c945bc25 SHA-1: 90f0880396f0285bc5e63fceaaf9a73d9788e38a SHA-256: ee9960e5b9769a98baf4d48fd8feb26205e4533a8b82bdffdb7c77558b23cfd1
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to a URL that mimics a Schengen visa application. This URL is designed to lure unsuspecting users. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL, reinforcing the phishing pretext. The presence of numerous other PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggests a link farm used for SEO poisoning or to obscure the final malicious destination.

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.com/pify?keyword=schengen+visa+online+form+pdf
    • http://files.burbankbees.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438477/a0f0a0281e4.pdf
    • http://files.senseconstructions.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739308/zemesixozuju.pdf
    • http://files.katierizzoartandawesome.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813694/xukunakodazot-visigirafube.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5593/8720/files/dotewekureduzunizate.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3983/4780/files/mitchell_on_demand.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7974/6207/files/xinidekij.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9775/1709/files/65215048573.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7508/4193/files/wodebirofineta.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6707/1894/files/21412966737.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3759/7607/files/75682654918.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9101/8396/files/tobepejetixawegitabijus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5300/6494/files/37986958413.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2672/7580/files/83609520896.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9613/6098/files/63040806781.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9122/1923/files/48165939015.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0216/5410/files/costco_pv_mall.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/1/0

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000795f.bin
d87d9ba2fba8351aeaa2279a2bf3791b85ad18bb997a821e5f662047ac53d64d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x795F 5440 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008ba6.bin
caae6e4db4896433b3298b9acae73f09c0e6a92de4ae96cb79db4e78e4832df2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8BA6 10524 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000af75.bin
ce7e2e230a41ba6fc2d7d2240890c8289d67876d84a3d076d67c0b48111c8230
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAF75 4324 bytes