Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c14aa37c73f72ede…

MALICIOUS

PDF

112.0 KB Created: 2020-08-04 23:31:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 548083652959b0876e0a650a24a83d60 SHA-1: ccb815a29ee1306c3047a0bb35d5e681370f1975 SHA-256: c14aa37c73f72ede684f96653c2233e3da13531a4325f5f0aae645b2578bd8b0
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains numerous embedded links, a significant number of which point to a redirector service. The primary heuristic indicates that the PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'article format cbse class 12 pdf' and the malicious URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking the link. 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.ru/pify?keyword=article+format+cbse+class+12+pdf
    • http://files.heartofachildministries.org/uploads/1/3/2/7/132712447/e7a59137c8ce5a.pdf
    • http://files.scentedgrove.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775364/736d015fa.pdf
    • http://files.craigmckechnie.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739712/3612940.pdf
    • http://files.empriswright.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131452842/87d6bad.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1297/2963/files/dekirerogozutejazekojodos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1891/7787/files/mujexinotol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/dutevitijenunolekegek.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4647/7725/files/beetle_armor_terraria.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6942/3269/files/xiserazizefanuminajij.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6422/2101/files/xurab.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/2935/6959/files/22629151215.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6472/1562/files/gewutunaruvakanixe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/9969/9866/files/vemevetagajuvelififodivu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6355/8815/files/27078577654.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/48466687054.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0683/5358/files/fanupap.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/zipepatijexozuzazes.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_off00016651.bin
e41ab98a8187a74b219c4cb75d78b6c9561e23afa831773dd40d166cda9f1dc9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x16651 5616 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00017955.bin
fabcdc176d1607bf634d6eaceb03ab4bb3dc63eaf0a2eff9ec14d210c32f79d9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x17955 10428 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00019ce6.bin
6e3fbd491d8b71441998836ddca0d0c102716a221ea14f8143929167ad9a79b3
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x19CE6 16164 bytes