Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45aacfae25420383…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.2 KB Created: 2020-09-06 11:20:17 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7a70c6520fc8d4e69e0fd603fdd62a45 SHA-1: af92b06d89d185661adfd3e519865819e8f26437 SHA-256: 45aacfae25420383dd01e3ffe75d234f58eb5ed7a819807bc3c80b637b2ecaf2
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.link/wix?keyword=interjections+worksheets+for+grade+6'. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF link farm heuristic, containing numerous external links, many of which point to 'static.usrfiles.com'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to these URLs, suggesting an attempt to drive traffic to malicious infrastructure under the guise of educational 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.link/wix?keyword=interjections+worksheets+for+grade+6
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5fd5c1_bd4569c0ec2140949bf1553b820da8d6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/760101_27b286a565bd474ba18d688c9ba2a327.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e42ee3_c5d8c1a4a03d4835b621e94ed71fc5d2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e6092c_b6ef0875af5e433b833fe6da1689abd1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d5d855_df8db993710f4ccfb7c9813652fdbcb4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1e8759_03debc50084345cfaae89cb878667844.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5c8b2f_dc22b2dc639f4b368c4ba7213ed50ab4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/529385_fe581bcc16304cf88945d44e4fd93d53.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_66acace23f7948cab8c857045f26fa7b.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e5412a_227c9afbcfea406dab8a32433c51aebb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7941/6473/files/python_convert_bytes_to_string.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8910/0951/files/82551594172.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9236/1887/files/bozimudekazojozikovirivos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0691/0876/files/gugozinekabidu.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/268ab1_2ccd2f1ba10043728aec6af1472ea035.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/38eac1_f4680673f6ed49ab85e999090728643a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/db1da1_31778f3b8ada40029d5ad58a638b0812.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_off000069e9.bin
a6fece2b6c06a26fc9b23f94a30f2e2175c4f997686d644163b88f839c89c2e9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x69E9 5576 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007cf2.bin
3aba8e1ce78264688b6e330d59637a8d7dcfa92c2ce88c22d5e6ff6d7a32e4a3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CF2 10244 bytes