Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff1102e20fd7db20…

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.1 KB Created: 2020-08-29 09:39:43 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 606ed74e50288df570eb52815b21ffc2 SHA-1: 47339254d1ee65c9eff365f0b911e683e97fc157 SHA-256: ff1102e20fd7db20aad5b2256125e617efc0bc47c2ab42c3134ebf857bb75e2a
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file exhibits characteristics of a link farm, embedding numerous external links, with a critical heuristic identifying a link to known malicious redirector infrastructure. The document body, though partially corrupted, contains text related to 'Mindup curriculum 6-8' and the malicious redirector URL, suggesting a lure to trick users into clicking on the malicious links. The primary attack pattern involves social engineering through a deceptive document that leads to potentially harmful external sites.

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.link/wix?keyword=mindup+curriculum+6-8
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4757/4949/files/xusewedetabebopatesis.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/tuwaz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7399/4905/files/21217235427.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0462/7575/6181/files/xurutidowebulexav.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4877/2508/files/lapexifimukisipixater.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/3806/5319/files/73027664268.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7031/4903/files/rewrite_the_stars_piano_sheet_free.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_603c1f8d26f5401094174002416790d5.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_e24d915b7adb4a728f09d69b917fe139.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_9c5f60f4ae5f4bd284098d999c42e049.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_72cc9411a6e04e4992ef968791678a7a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_897ed6863b604cffa6f10ef3d217e484.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c4f4ad8a7f1045a68f72f7509879d609.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_06c2953bfe0242299008cf429c93311e.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_c8d9684a554340108e5e40299a7909a0.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_off000050ce.bin
4f5d18371a87555023bca20b260827101df67d30c97dc2a2b2eadedeb2d73122
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x50CE 5216 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006273.bin
b6d30fbcfbe3081c8f5206688f4c6fea3c90242aa17fdfe5dd837c7853208441
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6273 9660 bytes