Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eeda9c5e688f06e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.1 KB Created: 2020-08-08 19:20:20 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5f94f1f7f3369445ef76a252c1b205ba SHA-1: a395c616daf6c1f072348aff35723612fa3564b6 SHA-256: eeda9c5e688f06e042c0de170699a509fd73d6f251baa6635a00a0edb4ddd81d
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, which is also present in the document body. This link, disguised as a tutorial, likely leads to a malicious site. The document also contains a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt to improve search engine ranking for malicious content. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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.ru/pify?keyword=bash+shell+scripting+tutorial+pdf
    • http://files.fawkhamridingclub.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739833/kobajutire_wijokolaw_bitavibazu_napupomevorove.pdf
    • http://ditasa.reedyforddental.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131409200/2809929.pdf
    • http://files.borrowedblessings.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775505/99f59e3a66.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4647/7725/files/7163392256.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3876/8284/files/a_history_of_magic_bathilda_bagshot.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0953/2323/files/dasunemodepe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8692/1376/files/28666538590.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7542/6722/files/pidikosakusoxivomurok.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9163/9966/files/86626333325.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3153/5524/files/36726711640.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0197/0837/files/rapedimekewebuler.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8933/0330/files/star_trek_series_ranked.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8072/1311/files/jodofiriwuwafozaxuxarutex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0755/8310/files/xilijaba.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_off00006b42.bin
232ef083c1b038d2c0ca540a2728e7a5140ce851d0010118f5667bb74486069a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6B42 5468 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007dd6.bin
53361e2f782147d52f3f70a3b0dc22f2b59a159aaa550d78bea3d7f679c96a0d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7DD6 14564 bytes