Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eaae78d9c207cdff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.5 KB Created: 2020-07-30 19:40:18 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 78c85ca7f147be7fd551ad70e80dc8fe SHA-1: 0e9bdc086458eda823a139940db709cffd7d3404 SHA-256: eaae78d9c207cdff187eb9ff731f8b019e2652cc6eee483149b2546449e536ef
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, specifically identified by the PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK heuristic. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, suggests a lure related to 'ap psychology unit 4 test pdf'. The primary IOC is the redirector URL, which is part of a larger link farm hosted on Shopify. No scripts were extracted, limiting the analysis of further payload delivery.

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=ap+psychology+unit+4+test+pdf
    • http://files.thistlethorn.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164351/xuwonoseb_fujumowotadomu_lidebakipuwoxe.pdf
    • http://files.sylviezannier.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483361/jugamafifujiv.pdf
    • http://files.ennishistory.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130814601/517838.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5222/1091/files/roxofip.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/xaxigeruver.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3951/4006/files/negebubajegudo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6775/8999/files/madamizixunemorapukaji.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8221/1733/files/vimufopoxoge.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/1737/9745/files/nerapujiva.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/6878/3782/files/11714853984.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0118/4417/files/lidivibogidamuxiv.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4591/1709/files/nivexekasulerolunilabod.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1935/3757/files/zapiburavanarugo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8245/7000/files/sijizukojaraxiv.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/1/0433/3951/4006/files/negeb

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000067a8.bin
b1db8749fae105621799590f4e6608580f12de8a9a3d976cd3e040208410cbfc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x67A8 5172 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007945.bin
5bb63c81bc40b775f5132179ac89f41ccf18ec4c728801e3c7aab351691a2820
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7945 7624 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off000092fa.bin
e0d92b70060ee34ff6e922a7c11fc07a4792c402b4a13a045a0519f6959cafb5
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x92FA 9888 bytes