Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb310300e26b7a08…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.0 KB Created: 2020-09-06 03:54:06 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 46aec6691caea58c615335efefd29451 SHA-1: ae34b4640d7fc0ade82564ac6d1fb1a7db706f28 SHA-256: eb310300e26b7a083395e0c633f451fa02a8401ab56207525f5a8c250f08b92c
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.me/wix?keyword=eureka+math+lesson+7+homework+answer+key'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL, suggesting it's the primary lure. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, many pointing to Shopify and static.usrfiles.com, likely for SEO manipulation to increase visibility of the malicious link. No scripts were extracted, and the PDF structure itself does not indicate exploitation, thus the attack pattern is focused on social engineering via a malicious link.

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.me/wix?keyword=eureka+math+lesson+7+homework+answer+key
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/2847/8102/files/39244239404.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/59526866216.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3464/7460/files/shankar_bhagwan_ka_bhajan_video.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d5d855_374efe3f6b5044bea6670568754061ca.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d6b5da_62847d1369334e87bdda8732aa654951.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a01749_cce1b29b79c14c489ca1f9d61a2a2361.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/a31856_d480da5b8de8412c9f294b0b5f7f8053.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/8127dd_40bb330f2c6142918f6478383db60848.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3596/7143/files/88379409708.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/78992801071.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5513/5390/files/nopajexagurewabipanol.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/18f527_71d798e7d94d4bf48d9c5966440199a1.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b910ae_0cbe7c6ea8774edf8853b7f3e1dbf15e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/87fdc7_fb3147713af34709bbaec6bdfab09d8e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b0b521_81362f11106e4c93b324402edf356033.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_off00006421.bin
5d11aefae9109b7607a6a2ff0214f0f81e306cbb3b047b8ff3d26c7de0d64183
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6421 5220 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000075d7.bin
2e287e3997904e35e8ee7cf313fe65c3c02514dc241b9febf923597b4ca84542
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75D7 12944 bytes