Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56d4bc1104bad41d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.3 KB Created: 2020-08-31 04:52:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4cee0122bda18b96ab32273d02cc6be2 SHA-1: 971740ac13a6cf8674d2adaee0c18925d314da33 SHA-256: 56d4bc1104bad41d112e41f556426cb57d3ca4e6354fbcf4211ab704913742e7
200 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 User Execution T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1566 Phishing

The PDF file contains social engineering tactics, including instructions to disable security software and press Win+R, consistent with ClickFix attacks designed to bypass macro restrictions. It also hosts a link farm pointing to numerous PDFs, with one primary URL identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and references to other PDFs, reinforcing the lure.

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • ClickFix social engineering attack high SE_CLICKFIX
    Document instructs the user to press Win+R or paste a command into a terminal — consistent with ClickFix attacks that bypass macro restrictions by tricking users into running malicious commands directly
  • Security software disable instruction high SE_SECURITY_BYPASS
    Document instructs the user to disable antivirus or security software — unusual for ordinary documents and high-risk in an unsolicited file
  • 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/wix?keyword=uplay+doesnt+download+after+unpausing
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/314c35_d3cde7ed27c640428a13ec8ea6343bad.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a55c3657c1c346ceb08a8fe36e0100b7.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0c43ab42b40f4f7a892d247be19dfa8a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_23a055ba82364faa9aee6e7df11a00e8.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5831/4912/files/fabikuduvigelabulumujimex.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5207/2088/files/temekakupefamubutifuxugu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6567/0806/files/aphasia_therapy.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/eda9ba_fef3eb392a814028b1aef5c00c96f3d4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_0c66bee8f36240ab9f0693405fe6d8ca.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/9757e7_7cb271ac40e54c3ea4c058f9f13a7c39.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/fd7405_a5f136a44e0b46e69695518fc8714385.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0df15e_899c3c6235384942991843700e9e906c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a4d998_bc31eefbac5946b2ba04cf2b82022eb2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_d78750bffee4420ba8832f112fc40169.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_off0000684a.bin
a41a51f21e6339c58109d489da9e6f63b331ce2855e40d9ece22648806295b93
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x684A 5396 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007acb.bin
1757727726f425c1a1ab94f864eb2f0b996c6f15da727f6520dea892c1c7b3b8
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7ACB 9820 bytes