Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f63b334984f58ef7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.8 KB Created: 2020-08-10 19:24:42 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 956daf3ea20dd52e91b44a699d48800d SHA-1: 6ab82550c319834ddd74d2a5443b0417b0a2342e SHA-256: f63b334984f58ef757203032350c53692b3c4b90b7f5df801b4253633d3fcbf0
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link that redirects to a malicious URL, disguised as a Nokia business strategy case study. This is further supported by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK and PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristics, indicating a phishing or social engineering attempt to lure the user to a malicious site. The document body contains the same lure text and the malicious 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/pify?keyword=nokia+business+strategy+case+study+filetype+pdf
    • http://files.ccydnehobbies.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131437532/6310462.pdf
    • http://files.effectivepracticeeducation.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164398/romikiz.pdf
    • http://files.eklavyadun.org/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398117/3520499.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2784/0669/files/sufafujadotufut.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0352/5790/files/75303229386.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8421/8532/files/vovumarigabisevo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9094/3902/files/ielts_speaking_cue_card_topics_with_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9822/5320/files/wiwev.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4157/0466/files/44447419249.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6539/3831/files/81027158984.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/46552055365.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6032/9637/files/gapomugimep.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0065/1158/files/9711404413.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6387/8566/files/nipineraxitelo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0443/9402/1030/files/cytosol_definition.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_off000077a5.bin
ea6eca156b89d080c4f2a6e61ce0e357011f3124143ef3c34266f508bf8bb348
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x77A5 5600 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008acb.bin
e9e58424961881a0ef266c1ed76c44215a1953eb62749c15dd9e2a214abbdb49
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8ACB 10372 bytes