Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab152e97c23cf835…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.7 KB Created: 2020-09-17 16:48:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3c7247214327a90ba527e4ad44628ec3 SHA-1: b387f9685f178841cfd7d2b334b521588592cf2f SHA-256: ab152e97c23cf835ff50aac63644fe98e4935d0dd6f8a762a5d4c54e095d6117
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, identified as a link farm, directing users to potentially malicious domains. One critical heuristic indicates a malicious redirector link, and another points to a link farm with many external PDF links. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'writing linear inequalities worksheet pdf' and includes URLs that are part of the link farm, suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. 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.link/wix?keyword=writing+linear+inequalities+worksheet+pdf
    • http://files.hamilocoast-picodeloro.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740270/semawesebuvidu.pdf
    • http://files.refugeriders.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132740375/suzekuvob.pdf
    • http://files.drweng.net/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738939/f36f53d.pdf
    • https://072e62fe-99a3-4b1a-b849-e3fcbd38a97b.filesusr.com/ugd/1df9ea_9d2c73562f0648c6a3d4acc4ec8ed081.pdf?index=true
    • https://a2d912dd-2d38-4bbd-b855-4a746abb9761.filesusr.com/ugd/8ff694_fe2e48e1de6d4302a3b2d0452013fc14.pdf?index=true
    • https://21a6f106-9e76-42e1-b5f5-7384b7ec46d5.filesusr.com/ugd/ab922d_2118ffde5c6541a181d9b2c4bae5ef6e.pdf?index=true
    • https://c79b6311-7e37-4ca1-84f0-2667f938a843.filesusr.com/ugd/4dd980_1ab46a0dc3964f7fb7f3e511273a8b72.pdf?index=true
    • https://8d01197f-4de3-46d1-8e80-45441ada520a.filesusr.com/ugd/bfbc46_c96ea4940a4540509b12b706e1984725.pdf?index=true
    • https://29d70d04-6939-4520-a6f3-d7d531dc1ac5.filesusr.com/ugd/681527_a3f95d2270d34e43bd7cbfbb9dca7223.pdf?index=true
    • https://2b7b2fc8-a8c3-49e0-a8f3-d6be8eda5d94.filesusr.com/ugd/76aeb6_8e1a9e37b5a64cc4ba10f1e9215d688d.pdf?index=true
    • https://e2e94877-8052-47d2-92cb-f935d220c140.filesusr.com/ugd/e49726_ab743c336bd04d548d12119e80342f5e.pdf?index=true
    • 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_off00004b64.bin
330965a46343a2b8b5fcf2ebb88d0899010ddad78e69251be1c4037ca8a75a12
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4B64 5600 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005e7f.bin
87b476b30872dea2ee6c0f55e8d4cc967e2b845761cde4931c18cb2bdbace756
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E7F 9876 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000808b.bin
2c5f1a2e3d9f683f6a217a47aeaaae813f7d4ef732a5ff54a929695507d09140
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x808B 16092 bytes