Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 adb7e241f5ce69ad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.7 KB Created: 2020-08-07 19:26:52 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 567a307a5b5b3b37bfe2eed88c449ef1 SHA-1: 8c1b8a87ff055a85a5ab82302ef3f696603e4d4c SHA-256: adb7e241f5ce69adffd1bc34b5de8fc4207d26aaf6ab23f866d28f73698165a5
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.com/pify?keyword=bruner+theory+of+instruction+pdf'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to 'Bruner theory of instruction pdf' and mentions wkhtmltopdf, suggesting a lure to disguise the malicious intent. The primary attack pattern involves redirecting the user to malicious infrastructure.

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=bruner+theory+of+instruction+pdf
    • http://files.greenrootsgourmet.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453588/26d064099ed1a50.pdf
    • http://files.nycea.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453170/nubekafexabul.pdf
    • http://files.mymarleymax.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776661/fisedajivuwaza_sajijivedibifi.pdf
    • http://bajex.newmilfordpilates.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969539/debalumunujokulurede.pdf
    • http://files.ambcboston.org/uploads/1/3/1/8/131871480/9916473.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6014/3014/files/58075033720.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6623/7852/files/dabotijavubigol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7659/7400/files/53280348216.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6985/7176/files/mamefilenakasadewogogurif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/2930/7293/files/loxof.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2745/6419/files/economics_mcconnell_20th_edition.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/2788/9302/files/9816652142.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/2990/5058/files/carcinoma_de_celulas_no_pequeas_de_pulmon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9540/7269/files/okami_warriors_sekiro.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5459/5224/files/19046735821.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/0785/8072/files/wonewonamidata.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9805/4558/files/button_onclick_javascript.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_off00008792.bin
7153010102a2f4226d7edf64f36615b63c1ab4c48d9f4fb1b139fab75714e996
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8792 5032 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000098b9.bin
c5d3549a9f5bd8f178f7ac8d7d3eca8c755be8d0066f1d8576ebbaebccc2b38f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x98B9 10288 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000bbae.bin
a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBBAE 4324 bytes