Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f136249c38d1f7b0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.4 KB Created: 2020-08-05 19:22:53 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4db068f42700c01255169df79aaec167 SHA-1: 00bedd6b6df3d28f2cb05d2d4a177590675242bf SHA-256: f136249c38d1f7b0cffb15465f8172e17251662d18e356a4d0e56118042cf65e
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link that redirects to a malicious URL, identified by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to converting XML to PDF and mentions the authoring application 'wkhtmltopdf', suggesting a lure. The PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates the presence of numerous external links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com, which are likely part of a link farm to improve search engine ranking for malicious content. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL.

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/wb?keyword=como%20converter%20xml%20em%20pdf%20online
    • http://files.jameskallembach.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856331/409862.pdf
    • http://files.rebuildersspecialty.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776795/7ef163.pdf
    • http://files.megtinsleymft.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775760/2156743.pdf
    • http://files.teamantoinette.org/uploads/1/3/2/8/132815002/dakaxe.pdf
    • http://files.gabriellemoulding.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969761/pizumubuzefotusob.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9262/3001/files/safuwovirosabegofurufe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7971/9317/files/80807243971.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6053/5196/files/62919639943.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4477/2759/files/66232272604.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7909/6728/files/79743078945.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3759/7591/files/737830470.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9744/6818/files/givufilan.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4228/3432/files/39330000312.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2161/5775/files/34663281417.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0637/7633/files/75797265460.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/8827/1767/files/o_reilly_books.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2905/4118/files/sesuxofatabeziripewel.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00004e6e.bin
6cc67eb3a412dfd7370014043eb331a23bfe4d7d6862e57c304f34a62034d092
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4E6E 4852 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005edc.bin
5a5089f6504eff0e7eed1e6a256b45764a86ab90a568940cff40aee7ad627eba
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5EDC 12392 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000084d0.bin
7f6049e5011acf0e8581793f2bc2bb947aac2929fdb77abc318b2a6155c1ef71
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x84D0 4324 bytes