Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dbd1603f79292607…

MALICIOUS

PDF

38.6 KB Created: 2020-08-29 14:53:15 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3f3f025c901e7c5cac61c52243377ee2 SHA-1: 3cd25e543200e0c8a8ebbb58d01a8791f6ef549b SHA-256: dbd1603f792926077f479ec88ab96e17ab8fa1f9220a180722a7a5a6a4f52c97
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to static.usrfiles.com, but one critical link directs to a known malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the URL that is also present in the heuristics and IOCs. This suggests the PDF is designed to trick users into visiting a malicious site under the guise of educational content.

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/wix?keyword=6+traits+of+a+market+economy+icivics+answer+key
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_f5e07f0d016147b8b28ddc512b72ef60.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/4d6844_eb9e4d87485346ba901c1bd76dd7092d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_05ac857d6e664b3b910f3edfe205fdd3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_ea18c6f43d984f198b1cf0c001dc39e2.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/33c377_f2874d5bea9b4d5f95f0242428668c04.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_408e0eff55044fd68ccb7aff459136fc.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b56ac838de1e45c4aa4b3ce74cbf2cae.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b42fd6_ce9ca236e2c2420fa55f68107bbb13a0.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6573bfaeffc24253bee62bc962877ac2.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4532/0861/files/lozemazowukapupuvopoj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0763/0747/files/liverpool_vs_ac_milan_legends_team_sheet.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/fuwemosuwizukuxitakalav.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9641/6157/files/kadavixelogedi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0454/2595/0876/files/34345023854.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0688/5027/files/gisuxa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6912/0413/files/bokexixagor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0737/6546/files/35103492084.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9164/6880/files/adc_rune_pages_season_6.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/
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005a24.bin
3bb366ff334374f08181e7b377e9a7c8748e392af76a2236352b1cc850a7d1a7
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5A24 5372 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006c69.bin
44f381c42a91ddbb190585ccdff214eb98ccc4c078de9afa3de4fa7c0c713876
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6C69 9380 bytes