Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 56fd3782b7d045df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.7 KB Created: 2020-08-23 08:14:44 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 6adb03e08ef1923d86309b2096671a2d SHA-1: 85fdee4cc315570842fadb9a6d08379430731bb1 SHA-256: 56fd3782b7d045df9cc086ef0f27d21f78b2db972126722fa586b7210130998d
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to external sites, indicating a link farm for SEO manipulation. One prominent URL, 'https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=building+information+modeling+master%2527+s+degree', is identified as a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to 'building information modeling master's degree', suggesting a lure to attract victims interested in educational content. The presence of numerous shopify.com links and other file hosting domains suggests a broad distribution effort.

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.com/pify?keyword=building+information+modeling+master%2527+s+degree
    • http://files.thehot-boxcompany.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131380547/motudo.pdf
    • http://wabajinu.suburbandetectiveagency.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776757/8977690.pdf
    • http://files.theogkicks.co/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776786/sumokenawaw.pdf
    • http://files.delcondesign.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131872178/d62a68c6e1ab2c.pdf
    • http://files.thebayshorecondos.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438150/fopapef.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9960/9505/files/84718695883.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7399/3890/files/bobcat_331_parts_manual_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7944/1307/files/xojakuzemas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6774/4160/files/79654373046.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2599/7722/files/vamitolikor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/pajovi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6671/9385/files/bajenedebelovafamozora.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4576/3744/files/76219306776.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2288/3735/files/cameron_highlands_trail_map.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1725/6603/files/coordinate_geometry_class_10_cbse.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/2147/3691/files/excel_create_chart_from_different_sheets.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_off00007715.bin
49250a0b62a8e2e39f70b3454dfae4d502933ed7e285f217bea539ce0447f876
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7715 5308 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008911.bin
fb446ad0925cd9a6b9c0efd3c551a0407bb0071b43180789a9aa5e2734e74755
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8911 10744 bytes