Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1a32dbadb56d3dc9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.3 KB Created: 2020-08-29 19:44:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5e26b9ef105a27aba68c6770d7661e2b SHA-1: 6c4f6bd3da475b94aaafa30ae5dfa5db05126a58 SHA-256: 1a32dbadb56d3dc9d23d35db32f81c5ed2a213d9957c8954389fea6330f9f8a9
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a PDF link to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text suggesting it is related to 'Hedwig's theme sheet music pdf', which is likely a lure. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=hedwig%2527+s+theme+sheet+music+pdf, which is used to redirect the user. The file also contains a link farm of 30 external PDF links, many pointing to static.usrfiles.com, which is flagged as a potential SEO link farm.

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/wix?keyword=hedwig%2527+s+theme+sheet+music+pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_75af4c98b558483ab5b7d42cc283ab75.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a91264_087a7704054143739ba8df8c260d33ce.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_06f4b874ea354103be66a26c2c57c641.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c929afcd3be645e1884838ef52a09c1f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d97449d974984ec58c122148a1992051.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0069/1868/files/69435715755.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4627/2162/files/48873127027.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8557/5845/files/jejomifabudokunex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1083/4077/files/18513906059.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1701/7243/files/80319671193.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0962/2691/files/lakafulazove.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6874/4099/files/61444874922.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7430/4662/files/zevavanomapudujudiveweliv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5240/0789/files/blind_spot_experiment.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5276/9192/files/17737093732.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_de8101c28447443aa733ff3c6c638ccb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a2069fcc385d483c8417b5d2b6ac7d3a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9631e454f8c64eb89350741a13eb1129.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/74a852_faccbc9710dc448689dde90058584227.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0104b7e6316244d59c2ecedde6b073c8.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_off00005d0e.bin
aa2fa0fef4344f833a0c81b25040c18fbba980a61cdcfd483319a51c409fe21d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5D0E 5320 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006f27.bin
34dadb0577c1d88351c46d9f21ac48873c61f917e3fa14e02fad34f8bcddf15f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F27 9820 bytes