Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa8ff78c4c3a737b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

45.2 KB Created: 2020-08-25 19:03:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 674fe876cab93d8ec1e13dfea7e37dae SHA-1: 40053ae0c66b7e91389b66ae68c4bcd74289cf2f SHA-256: fa8ff78c4c3a737b0cef6235d7a7bbccb7223a9e72d6c28d339433446523dc70
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 known malicious domain, identified by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text suggesting it is a lure for a book download, which is a common social engineering tactic. The PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates the presence of numerous external links, further supporting the malicious intent of redirecting users to potentially harmful content.

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=livro+completo+o+ultimo+dos+canalhas+pdf
    • http://wisuni.gordonandjulia.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407440/5816486.pdf
    • http://virevus.studioentitas.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379951/6595143.pdf
    • http://files.abmodelmaking.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874010/9901382.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1686/2371/files/kaspersky_internet_security_2016_key.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/4924/2024/files/zodanufejovufajonobipa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7877/0076/files/vupoxowizejazenamiderod.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6068/2139/files/96598362563.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7069/2255/files/27354452550.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3505/7566/files/wekuvaw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8974/0441/files/wovoririzusujaselopexubo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6703/8106/files/76283059237.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7175/7718/files/sominirixaxipo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/3502/8630/files/order_of_adjectives_worksheets_for_grade_7.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7950/7870/files/volifakokonibifinu.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_off00006e95.bin
5940a1c94e2e02e6f0d586896594a6b0ca35e86e76b37f863833384cfe8da82b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E95 5396 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000080c0.bin
4eeaecbfe1a3440eb42e250dfe3a9d83678d997a8bb14bcb62a1eb987a21c8f9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x80C0 12352 bytes