Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fe7937ff0b421556…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.3 KB Created: 2020-08-09 01:40:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 44add0aaf0d03e146c0e58fb2a08fd94 SHA-1: 4ab701b469531e34b370cd229849816263e351bd SHA-256: fe7937ff0b42155693c79db9320b4dab1151675ab8e527c66ae8a867633178b4
140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link that redirects to known malicious infrastructure, identified by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. Additionally, the document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to an 'authorization letter for bike pdf' and includes the malicious URL. The PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic indicates a large number of outbound links, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. The SE_CALLBACK_LURE heuristic suggests a social engineering pretext, likely to trick the user into clicking the malicious link.

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns
  • 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=authorization+letter+for+bike+pdf
    • http://files.vanitasarts.co.uk/uploads/1/3/2/8/132814147/rimezitipisekumume.pdf
    • http://files.womenforthesupportofagriculture.org/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814515/5760916bc67c.pdf
    • http://files.micheleroldanshaw.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131454345/movametoj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/3951/1960/files/67057305280.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2608/7064/files/25999232974.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1916/6105/files/56863152734.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1128/2840/files/lijejezigujoxejomuxose.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/webomobituwisumepepaxifi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3237/0590/files/physics_notes_for_neet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3863/0300/files/22247736499.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2436/7262/files/54562859781.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5689/0013/files/55525766755.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/kilezibuvi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8565/2375/files/37295374829.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1174/2628/files/61039656602.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7595/1005/files/aditya_hrudayam_in_telugu_with_meaning.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9462/0837/files/21613568951.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_off0000863c.bin
98a714af12060f64670d1d2b2d12f40d13e5921ae924557d2e84f93d817e3bce
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x863C 5196 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000097e6.bin
3c75086d34c0487096e40593bcc276a7b50ebdbed05314d49eb5d0a929cc1197
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x97E6 10696 bytes