Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2715fc867c8c7bd4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.6 KB Created: 2020-09-20 05:32:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 8e2701fc28084d148c10c16257120c6c SHA-1: d5e9b2584862456cdc55897e39257ae7b0cccf2f SHA-256: 2715fc867c8c7bd4986f4792e8431a5499217427f2f975404edf96b9e65e63ac
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, many of which point to a redirector service. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be the primary lure, disguised as academic content. The heuristic firings indicate that the PDF is designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, likely for further exploitation or credential harvesting.

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.link/wix?keyword=2003+ap+calculus+ab+exam+multiple+choice+answers
    • http://files.benningtonyoga.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164442/7359335.pdf
    • http://files.rockymountbc.net/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379213/mikunalitigef.pdf
    • http://files.lissalubinskimd.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637649/decb6b2582cafe.pdf
    • http://files.browncountyhumaneshelter.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813134/durixigox.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6300/8664/files/frog_pond_farm_harvard_ma.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6713/6413/files/chashme_baddoor_full_movie_720p_openload.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3566/4284/files/zopekodukibolaposu.pdf
    • https://2d56fd93-fd5f-42bc-89a4-7bcdcee5f6a8.filesusr.com/ugd/6f58fb_f83a519e63ed41b69fa8e92389b4354d.pdf?index=true
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/5348/9832/files/firewalld_centos_7_guide.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6012/5080/files/95420274876.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9282/6528/files/toefl_reading_practice_test.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/2990/2998/files/66197088638.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_off00007a9a.bin
3c14cd733827810125942fcbbabbe0f7379e3ee936d2b1ddb8567a45b577df7d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7A9A 5816 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008e4a.bin
be110e88cb22659d3a126ad050a619096ef28d6a7f9e1005e8d4604089c6cc9b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8E4A 11668 bytes