Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd92be5206234fe6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.2 KB Created: 2020-08-14 03:39:03 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 5de0007240dcc6a6be2608f068ceb5e4 SHA-1: 248824357cb1a84764da9c180bdb7a5bad61c8c9 SHA-256: fd92be5206234fe62024293e69be3c2b48d7a672a884ed581cdb75791ae30f19
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains a URL that appears to be a lure for "Counseling psychology interview questions and answers". This URL redirects to a known malicious domain, suggesting the primary goal is to lead the user to a malicious site. The file also contains a large number of external PDF links, many hosted on Shopify, which is indicative of a link farm used for SEO poisoning or to obscure the final malicious destination.

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=counseling+psychology+interview+questions+and+answers
    • http://files.beautifulimageofboone.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969428/9669097.pdf
    • http://files.heartridgeministries.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131407357/1746300.pdf
    • http://files.handcraftersbarn.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739234/lazazefesotejeripez.pdf
    • http://files.charlotteatkin.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438500/e5f05.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3170/7294/files/15020631460.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0032/3478/files/bartok_romanian_folk_dances_piano_sheet_music.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8279/2606/files/al_quran_al_karim.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7133/2767/files/26816172137.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5823/2473/files/sorezusaloxuna.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/3015/1330/files/gogujixudaretobatag.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4198/0567/files/12801593261.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8441/5143/files/diccionario_ecologico_ambiental.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0281/4876/files/wotevusi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6763/7917/files/jirusotivudij.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3957/2643/files/seluxemod.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0445/7899/6383/files/39839260838.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_off00008323.bin
2108e99037dfd6e85b115b11e4ea47dc889139e47b0f3fbc79f64e472666ba62
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8323 5620 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009649.bin
ec70148c75e15ee3c57d730ffa10f5a07c05aefecffe226fca41fd24ac034588
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9649 10120 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000b8e6.bin
b50a2106bf82917db0cd3cf88f63c5e8cc3298b343ace5cffc591b35df33d24c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB8E6 4324 bytes