Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e73e374c7fbfca9c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

49.1 KB Created: 2020-08-22 02:57:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7441892a07ddd01e4b9cdb4b08cd297e SHA-1: 5ba27ea47f5478db354dbf5f97ae604f0f22c7fc SHA-256: e73e374c7fbfca9cda0a2fb50877f55380b6c0246e56d4815e57ef202e01a368
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains numerous embedded links, with a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text related to 'pmi lessons learned template free' and a URL pointing to a redirector. This suggests the document is designed to trick users into clicking malicious links, likely leading to further compromise.

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=pmi+lessons+learned+template+free
    • http://xosufiz.panthercreekroad.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383744/wonisanotidaj.pdf
    • http://xekiwatos.hifiaddiction.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/1/131163927/5b82c4.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/5616/0151/files/accident_report_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/2643/8550/files/85790912134.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/4849/3205/files/bernette_75_sewing_machine_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5349/8019/files/55312851136.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/9004/3040/files/ignou_anthropology_study_material_free.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5207/2086/files/mah_mba_cet_2020_syllabus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6219/0489/files/75324488668.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/9476/1877/files/2018150642.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/0331/3315/files/87401791532.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/muzoguganava.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2598/9785/files/zedutolowopu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/8497/0139/files/96369075339.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_off00007546.bin
5940cb9b30cb52bba79286f9b7ee1b1650246d2f900ed2febecfd5d7623c7fa9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7546 4976 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000860a.bin
7ec9835559afa0a46f94385c58303f042e2c76825298a2bbc51d46975dc6c722
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x860A 10676 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000a9ab.bin
7f6049e5011acf0e8581793f2bc2bb947aac2929fdb77abc318b2a6155c1ef71
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA9AB 4324 bytes