Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e2fe6f0125b6384…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.6 KB Created: 2020-08-28 22:42:01 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 650f2876a9a7783da6dc1db0e4895b41 SHA-1: aec57e45c80a9ca3f3eaa11db26e39c723f3d9b3 SHA-256: 2e2fe6f0125b6384a1ca1d7e3cf36d77cd933d3a23fa4ffdc086d0eb63376313
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link that redirects to a known malicious URL, identified by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to physics and the malicious URL itself, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking. The PDF also contains a large number of external links, as indicated by the PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM heuristic, which are likely part of a link farm to improve search engine ranking for malicious content.

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.cc/wix?keyword=what+is+the+angular+acceleration+%25CE%25B1+o
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6fe114e92fed432bb41651a335f86c31.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1649157441a143e9b41e4bcc65abc0a2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_80314a30d10c4facaac57f5f2912e18e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c6ad5c6885594950ac3b8735acf93018.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_42a66ad919d34360ae6ce3c67c1ee1a9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_da0534fc26834392a6891e7b16b012dc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1b4014c6baa24e85b730d37e90d6527e.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7096/3350/files/genen.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/vujunuvitiwowus.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_baf03b0f78af4595a2ef86900b87d4ac.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_777f775b845b4d4dacec14420ea13f7f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3f92c65d7a024e6a8718f26566f71acb.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_43cdedc5c9ef437aaec158e14bc2b1c2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_dd612951ca1747b4a411d83b7988187c.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_off00006235.bin
a0d3a7f0c1ef37369fed8a7a9f76159ad4a523e611a755aaacd395b9332e96b7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6235 5232 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007406.bin
d3c04e8c8532c760031bf714d7e9f7e73f1f0a286b61ad0310113e162a7f2930
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7406 10308 bytes