Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e6d58fec559bc1c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.0 KB Created: 2020-08-21 04:00:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 85df40a2be0b4288eb4e96425ceafff2 SHA-1: e12d24e32fd79ab41c1aed74e8d4744c79823aa7 SHA-256: 7e6d58fec559bc1ccb9e6cc7de3f4479db15285ef93f332153be96e7aaa6d6ff
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=visheshan+worksheet+for+class+3+pdf'. This indicates a phishing or scam attempt. The document also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify. The embedded document body text, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same malicious URL, reinforcing the phishing lure. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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.cc/pify?keyword=visheshan+worksheet+for+class+3+pdf
    • http://levejirof.ruleofthreepod.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163635/0ea033cf679.pdf
    • http://files.mrsdonahue.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131436956/wonusigozipelago.pdf
    • http://files.knowledgetraks.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131384442/7295214.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8266/9461/files/duxemividen.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7968/7587/files/53830231420.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0497/6548/files/jufigugemos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1447/0302/files/25374737855.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1847/7987/files/rodowemobemido.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6877/5841/files/manual_after_effects_cc_2020.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6063/3493/files/novinigipiwowil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8634/7417/files/wowugololirerelomozeju.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_off00006c62.bin
9c89b2229fae56a4085b20c2dc628998cc7387571955e2ba23c297f1e50eba26
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C62 5528 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007f36.bin
6af1c5e2eca28fd905cee69a74107267ebb52e8ecc7e327324a31c9d91cefa92
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7F36 10544 bytes