Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 811332be1f7e6209…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.6 KB Created: 2020-08-29 15:24:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 6a91c649d1f129195c6fefc545f35038 SHA-1: 275e85543d2af4bdb0cae9c7555341048f1fb6ba SHA-256: 811332be1f7e6209845a7bf865498cf3cef62f31b5c5bc4f0317c879bc59431f
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to `https://ttraff.cc/wix?keyword=bseb+10th+exam+form+date+2020`. This URL is likely used to redirect the user to a malicious site. The document also contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to Shopify and static.usrfiles.com domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning tactic to increase visibility. The document body, though heavily corrupted, contains the same malicious URL and keywords related to exam dates, reinforcing the lure.

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/wix?keyword=bseb+10th+exam+form+date+2020
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8908/4068/files/xofizunikunozubo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0459/9663/8365/files/staples_5_mil_laminating_sheets.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7377/2447/files/anemia_dalam_kehamilan_jurnal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7967/2735/files/44627659732.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/4196/4710/files/51692446805.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_a3081d5f113847e3815b5218372ceb27.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c4dda66298124c45b7c90b0a0761bc49.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ab7dd75635464054a42db0782c96eafd.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e1de1c023a5a4ace8c1d74a72eafdd2f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6b98fd1e34704383a5e9351bad775e9f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_fe4d156699cb4103ae10e8fb5e5bc39a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_22f4a8dfe82e40809ec9519ef8167ac2.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 5

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006282.bin
f0b9c95261064f68c2feae04afa6a4170bd81eb4df9b89490ba083d2e024db55
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6282 5332 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000074a2.bin
cf5dd148bf63bbfe648f95b33184d8bef6c26baec5185afa38187055a926e6e4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x74A2 9876 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000096d6.bin
e5458d7b6d82539349b17fc4713a17e1381d471255c72d9f8116b7c86e08c443
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x96D6 16168 bytes
font_03_sfnt_off0000abdb.bin
cd94ef65598b1866d0653cdd88243d989fd81359c0e770c2d3a4858f1c2f6d34
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xABDB 4324 bytes
font_04_sfnt_off0000b9dd.bin
d96001ec013eb5f90f5e23162ad08f27f546bb36847e9545f1e29b653c2e8fca
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB9DD 8068 bytes