Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f3ab28747932a0f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

58.6 KB Created: 2020-09-08 04:39:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7391d1ce04667948909350de644ab32a SHA-1: f1cc33d891bbd5fad7bbc55303e69e56241bf7f2 SHA-256: 1f3ab28747932a0fccdba2be9c5f98ac8a29243e96fd33868ec0b70cff23e92d
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic indicating it links to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to 'Lytic cycle of viral replication worksheet' and a URL that is flagged as malicious. This suggests a social engineering lure to direct users to a malicious site, likely for phishing or malware delivery. The PDF also contains a link farm heuristic, indicating a large number of external links, further supporting the malicious intent.

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.me/wix?keyword=lytic+cycle+of+viral+replication+worksheet
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9417/1036/files/ct_scanner_reading_answers.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/xumilegimazuguvabunozanik.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9928/1821/files/11145003698.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6587/6378/files/videos_cristiana_gratis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8531/5739/files/nigiwazuvipuzanefa.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_2b092887eafa442484de6f598e3e6a7b.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1608/5923/files/sokawidiparogofilif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8877/9166/files/accesspro_ap-_5_manual_espaol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5939/6254/files/75850260356.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7129/1035/files/employment_verification_template.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/5204/4181/files/earwig_fact_sheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2512/9891/files/college_application_form_template.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5494/0828/files/bose_soundlink_mini_speaker_user_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5889/6802/files/15431989700.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3197/0471/files/ncert_class_12_environment_and_ecology.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3504/1702/files/botulisme_adalah.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000998e.bin
0cf896cc2ff5a6f0d79a10724260bb9788560cb2e799a66d1c9e0dc85010b215
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x998E 5152 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000ab1c.bin
c8f5ff0413f977b885ae82bd0bf3457ff10b3220880691bb00894b96fec29ad0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xAB1C 10484 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000cea1.bin
cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xCEA1 4324 bytes