Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c51549d91981537e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.4 KB Created: 2020-09-03 03:00:51 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 741193c6cfb318e71f6a876276003f05 SHA-1: 4a435406479945be1e1a9a28f0e009364cc39287 SHA-256: c51549d91981537e27dbcfbd79dfee9563c187724763fd359b2932e9a4cdcae3
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, which is also present in the document body. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF link farm heuristic, suggesting a tactic to artificially inflate search engine rankings or distribute malicious links. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports the lure-based attack pattern. No scripts were extracted, but the combination of heuristics and the embedded malicious URL strongly indicates a phishing or redirection attempt.

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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=basics+of+electrical+engineering+mcq+pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6900/4190/files/pakaxuvozesajoso.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7312/7079/files/bisomoxukaxupesig.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/7279/0421/files/11194022242.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/8380/9439/files/jibakakozuwolaxifa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6281/3084/files/wunedetulivinoxodug.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a86d68_211b329af06b4907bf78d7f44522d8a2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d7d6cd_dfbf4062cc93422ea03b0d8c231255e5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/54fa57_6a7c00824ff548869279ba31f06cfbe0.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/9946/9464/files/libafeja.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9114/0501/files/87604688363.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8555/4073/files/78732170843.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6518/0314/files/adding_and_subtracting_fractions_worksheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4418/3974/files/47046172746.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9279/5801/files/87017322749.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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000067c4.bin
8e07dffdca4a7b39be065f1f06cdc9efaf89ec51f908ec2773d126c542f68435
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67C4 5648 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007add.bin
b0ec3bdfeb4c24ac5b1d560bfea6973388d3b8eaec39a4d9751940bd15e1b062
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7ADD 16224 bytes