Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3021739bdeeaff80…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.2 KB Created: 2020-08-24 01:55:39 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 8f4c572fd20ff69cac17f2d0d4ba5679 SHA-1: a913d39d1b5606b058afd0f5aed0022e77051355 SHA-256: 3021739bdeeaff80fb612f80e1e2292a3dfa2a832c1f15456bbc4011982cd32d
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with one URL pointing to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the text 'Circle parts worksheet' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure. The presence of a 'Visible LOLBin command execution instruction' heuristic indicates that the PDF likely contains embedded commands or scripts designed to execute malicious code or redirect the user to further stages of an attack. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL.

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.
  • Visible LOLBin command execution instruction high SE_LOLBIN_RUN_COMMAND
    Document contains instructions or visible command text involving Windows script/execution tools such as PowerShell, mshta, cmd, rundll32, or regsvr32
  • 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/pify?keyword=circle+parts+worksheet
    • http://files.profgeasorb24b.com/uploads/1/3/1/0/131070113/b7de277b0bce7d.pdf
    • http://janepo.mjfk.dk/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379362/falezasovimina.pdf
    • http://files.byobeez.org/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775023/lepawogoweveguj_jorozen_popejewisidadu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8987/0491/files/33519847842.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0497/7564/files/powershell_replace_text_in_file.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5563/5880/files/how_to_unfollow_everyone_on_twitter.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3458/0891/files/fodaxa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8914/1664/files/kota_the_friend_birdie_song.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4290/6007/files/age_of_empire_untuk_android_offline.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9168/8610/files/60739353893.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6517/0334/files/l_aveuglement_spirituel_pdf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0146/1410/files/86221713141.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/2011/3304/files/62999871748.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6108/3288/files/aprender_hablar_japones_basico.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_off00006ad1.bin
475ca28f21100e6aac4fcfdbec4a4da54c3f15065e3c95bdbec5f8826060cb4d
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6AD1 4884 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007b82.bin
2582bfa19d9f0514e6812732015c3cf6f81f6364a654aeb5260c80db5c2a473c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7B82 10192 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00009e67.bin
9f355172d696dda274cac500966718f112ce76951f19577ac4888987ea6471b2
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9E67 4324 bytes