Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e249313457f18a2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.6 KB Created: 2020-08-08 05:40:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 4bf7a344ca38d0103b75a58c8a8f6f0f SHA-1: affee50b5dd51e5b7dd3864205863dd0d4180ff9 SHA-256: 8e249313457f18a271e8c2512c7d539a3e75a869ccbc86699ca28f2fdb7b9e80
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous links, masquerading as educational content, that point to external resources. One of these links, found in the document body and flagged by heuristics, redirects to a known malicious URL. The file also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with many embedded URLs pointing to various domains, likely for SEO manipulation or to host further malicious content. No scripts were extracted, but the primary attack vector appears to be social engineering through deceptive links.

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.ru/pify?keyword=manual+para+aprender+ingles+para+ni%25C3%25B1os+pdf
    • http://winero.pokrconsulting.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130813821/suderonesozebe_ketilapipad.pdf
    • http://files.aceachieversourlearninghub.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871535/1600613.pdf
    • http://files.workingdogo.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130740252/2b6fb3253.pdf
    • http://papunuz.mooncityeventcenter.com/uploads/1/3/2/8/132816066/pixeda.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9567/7346/files/weighted_average_example.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8615/9767/files/john_wick_2_torrent.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1535/6067/files/asian_cards_against_humanity.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0846/6845/files/tapulodufew.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9973/2633/files/c_and_c_difference_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6986/6138/files/64064078096.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4190/7110/files/29972353850.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5698/8317/files/5291130381.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4841/8973/files/adeste_fideles_spartito_pianoforte.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4656/8098/files/76993353512.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/2317/8656/files/gutavax.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005f42.bin
35ca02a90b9e8c16c4615a02ffaac8dbda4a69849d89abfd1f9aefd1f87d6a40
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F42 5228 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000070cf.bin
5a9d6dc166bb908a67d909577f4b5598a88fdd61d2a70c5869db11309d116b06
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x70CF 11156 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000094f4.bin
a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x94F4 4324 bytes