Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bdcf6cb0b990b80e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

42.7 KB Created: 2020-09-01 21:51:19 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7eb335c081ef4cf64d89495beca2ff30 SHA-1: 8d273109ef10acc24b7d10b0845d9f66a317b5f4 SHA-256: bdcf6cb0b990b80ee5a86b7b21232a4d4e975ef87640414fcab92ceb0c32aad8
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, disguised with a seemingly innocuous search query. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same URL. The file also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to external PDF documents, likely for SEO poisoning or to mask malicious activity. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which is likely used to funnel victims to a malicious site.

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=way+down+hadestown+piano+sheet+music
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4b874d_7751b69ba1a3453a9bda441a231e81f3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cac9e4_2336523a0e2b4ea0ad9c9555d3b27daa.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1fa6dd_b64f3b8b801144e1a5832a3dad3e279f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/93971e_dd16ac7a1cfe4af5b1c562c2336dae90.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/defcb2_ea1b9d93feb840b7a974ee71ef10983f.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5922/4480/files/kernel_density_estimation.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1898/5370/files/literacy_worksheets_ks2_year_5.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2447/4531/files/firisewaginekez.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0448/2839/3634/files/81885699874.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0017/6544/files/dillards_card_services.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3925/0853/files/61616226097.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3027/3434/files/tubinosijukudewipuzad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0006/9270/files/gedadalutaxamakagu.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_41934b2beee5442ca25610b90fd6c930.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/dfb5f8_a98ad2f131ef4ebbafd670f183b9561c.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1cc7e8_44ae3d98c04b48d9829c42f888039f08.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_off00004fc2.bin
d78f60283f0296ca4b8e53cd0ada68ee2c332739ad6df51cf34ac6a55cdef467
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4FC2 5276 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000061a7.bin
2c195fb703520310318054fbeda9ca5d79945059b94c99730d14da361d33e991
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x61A7 14892 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00008fd8.bin
1158d95dac44631f497756703988ba3645251422e7ff0015d3fca430225e7c3e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8FD8 4324 bytes