Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2fcbd664bf3a4fff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.4 KB Created: 2020-08-14 23:14:29 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 47e00f10bec0bf457524d9770212eb38 SHA-1: 3aa7fa4f95ff52c747a538a34cf7cecbed572851 SHA-256: 2fcbd664bf3a4fff4fec01931e16bf14e2cf35ac3322e25e2c53bb5d1e64640e
120 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, directing users to `https://ttraff.ru/wb?keyword=csec%20human%20and%20social%20biology%20past%20papers%20pdf`. It also contains a link farm heuristic, with many links pointing to `cdn.shopify.com` and one to `http://lifov.microbesbymarco.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132816066/3feecf4dd13f68.pdf`. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains these URLs, suggesting a lure to academic content to mask malicious redirection.

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/wb?keyword=csec%20human%20and%20social%20biology%20past%20papers%20pdf
    • http://lifov.microbesbymarco.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132816066/3feecf4dd13f68.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6784/2459/files/97349517540.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2312/3100/files/22122143617.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1676/5088/files/zukawoboxutorako.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6567/0806/files/data_structures_and_algorithms_for_interviews.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9262/3013/files/bbc_english_grammar.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2950/3908/files/85891011864.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4727/2098/files/cnet_free_s_for_windows_10.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3536/1442/files/44406856639.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0909/7384/files/zoxisotebifewabujewoze.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0113/4747/files/razilikojulifizatujuguk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0187/1512/files/toefl_ibt_test_structure.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6621/2003/files/momujeliwenusipivagevisad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5625/9491/files/difolutenifax.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_off000042c3.bin
bda0a45af1bd13ed9cd02fb07e77e0e91942860d30507e2ee4d3767caab6493d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x42C3 5716 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000560b.bin
c04891db2119ff00528bd0be0f654f6301ed8321220a353dbe39d8392e189b60
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x560B 9456 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00007651.bin
ad623bc7c681097dfa1224999cf6cc6072d3ca9a137655dc1129b0261f0b357c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7651 4324 bytes