Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2795e95106c58aab…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.0 KB Created: 2020-08-31 00:29:24 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: cbb6d2fea9dde288de61f2796a198116 SHA-1: c02e9a2c2753d0896d49d0cd0f9ea3535ce4faad SHA-256: 2795e95106c58aab125466f429a49a7b3b0981679a9637374ea6fb88c6664dda
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass of external links, many pointing to Shopify and static.usrfiles.com, designed to appear as free downloadable books. One link, https://ttraff.com/wix?keyword=computer+networking+pdf+books+free+download, is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains this same URL, indicating a lure to a malicious site. The presence of numerous links and the redirector strongly suggest a link-farming or phishing attack.

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.
  • Remote-support tool lure high SE_REMOTE_SUPPORT_LURE
    Document instructs the user to install, open, or connect with a remote-support tool such as AnyDesk, TeamViewer, Quick Assist, or ScreenConnect — high-risk in an unsolicited document
  • 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=computer+networking+pdf+books+free+download
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/6455/5675/files/51080957820.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1234/9334/files/41574366327.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0097/7816/files/bollywood_movies_2018_free_mastirock.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1634/8057/files/duzebakufunatapirudupu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6100/8791/files/big_ideas_math_algebra_2_book.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0d2908_42eeb981f81c4c8d9d0440dac82a650d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9ec29b_75bcf09dea20401da347e336bc130d03.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/f459ea_daef549623f84aa3997265d945384a49.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9b6b751c4290470db59cc9359cebf444.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/89064d_df066e4d9d11419a91c3200eb3d1b18f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1813b3_1722995594ea4ed3b552fbaaceb8a174.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6a22cb_46a98cb0d02149dc8df6ba4a5d642411.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_cc2df725d53a4123ae0e48095199d0fb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/455f95_2671f1d32878459d85661e44a64aaf69.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b7ed05_993a48557fb044d5940dc30907fea776.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2074c9_477e311dfbe84ba88d9389b0a0dd6c51.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c76d37e2515a4a21b7f32e3888465f3a.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_off000065f4.bin
0390d709bfa46958938e804332e725f2a18cc03513bb0e56e27e8e563569a774
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x65F4 5560 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000078da.bin
6555ae4b4238a641af0bc7679634f8206fa759480897df5fcb42b6365e575d3c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x78DA 10004 bytes