Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f2c39eca88a7bf41…

MALICIOUS

PDF

59.4 KB Created: 2020-08-14 19:04:27 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 88c36687e8b176ca5cec28f7d72dd3a3 SHA-1: 675fba0a5d09fe538a9338cbb39d0359b386a0a7 SHA-256: f2c39eca88a7bf41c9307f4297cb3ac9d15813a3d699132021810d8db257cc9e
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains multiple embedded links, with one specifically pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'Hay house podcast' and the redirector URL includes a similar keyword, suggesting a lure. The presence of numerous external PDF links also indicates a link farm strategy, likely to obscure the 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.cc/pify?keyword=hay+house+podcast
    • http://files.brightmorningstardaycarellc.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164358/756ee0c1c6.pdf
    • http://files.nurturedbirthservices.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969545/8e3366b0d399.pdf
    • http://files.thedolphinboat.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695278/2709810.pdf
    • http://files.callanassociates.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132816036/zagawemowanow-guvoj-kesojinetapexi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0665/6666/files/rodevakitij.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3000/3355/files/68983484911.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6109/2255/files/levugularasufabopuzat.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0096/2977/files/tinufosediluduxajuxij.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3532/0735/files/zujuzutope.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1754/3588/files/gobegimodaf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2014/7095/files/kaman.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/7789/2251/files/31301604846.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6193/6290/files/belotuxogotopanimamene.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0766/2504/files/assr_2.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8049/9879/files/54413479271.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/80835258875.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/1/0437/2014/709

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00009deb.bin
c726f77111a2e4c23a8e4c13a8da02aa4a7216812982a8ea3688879573595a29
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9DEB 4824 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ae5e.bin
9e4857c01de078186e5f6ac2c5976563d9a622a485e161b4b01773c00df086b6
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAE5E 10684 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000d272.bin
cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xD272 4324 bytes