Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1cf242496b68d922…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.3 KB Created: 2020-09-19 08:49:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 014941731cea34dd1514a2c9d13676c4 SHA-1: 8d5d8950090b4a9ea5026de55c0198ac2a105845 SHA-256: 1cf242496b68d922876bfb6828821cdb96f70cfb34d3f84eb8250f0b04068025
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, which points to a URL designed to look like a geometry worksheet. This URL is the primary indicator of malicious intent. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL and references to 'equation of a circle worksheet geometry pdf', reinforcing the lure. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded links to external PDFs, likely to improve search engine ranking for malicious content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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/wix?keyword=equation+of+a+circle+worksheet+geometry+pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9197/5580/files/niferulewil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0478/1722/8455/files/pueblo_school_for_arts_and_sciences_employment.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0444/0326/1606/files/la_calaca_alegre_book_in_english.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6795/7658/files/debejekiti.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8851/9080/files/mabesuzerumulami.pdf
    • https://13c758b0-d810-4d28-a475-748181f97043.filesusr.com/ugd/9b7d8a_9fb620656b264ab9b81c26a506f004de.pdf?index=true
    • https://3f301f9f-d007-47cf-b088-77fa6f9d3720.filesusr.com/ugd/c8df25_69edf5ffffd848c39f9b2148ff5a19a5.pdf?index=true
    • https://be7bc9f1-cc9a-430f-b1bd-29ba50b37e8d.filesusr.com/ugd/5a1791_24c577ecacaf4933a6b809fca82deac8.pdf?index=true
    • https://7c0297dd-0e5a-48f8-a29e-c50fc6724342.filesusr.com/ugd/5c9621_910ccfdb41054321899a51d6122cd92b.pdf?index=true
    • https://0094444c-bdbe-4c6b-bf6d-deb9523a8596.filesusr.com/ugd/1813b3_26f5553c22c44b95bae98607a27b13e3.pdf?index=true
    • https://83df67ee-a063-423e-921d-b66427d9f69e.filesusr.com/ugd/35e1ce_243b6ba3510944e38212b1254946b508.pdf?index=true
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7759/9383/files/malutarazoxakilozijebe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2535/0301/files/26243036305.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9526/1333/files/ipcc_auditing_standards_notes_pdf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2602/2554/files/6163532089.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2518/4421/files/griechisches_Rindfleisch_kokkinisto.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_off000055f3.bin
f42d391513c1548879dc1523564d0f4f3ae1fed85216ed1268c1775154e46d7c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x55F3 5908 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006a08.bin
ffef3c36c83c4e5dd278b9aabfaa5148195e041df16ed99ce83896289c00fc88
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A08 9976 bytes