Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1a24bc6ec51f48b1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

73.3 KB Created: 2020-09-02 10:44:47 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 99122a8a49b574810f308bb17fabce2f SHA-1: 76def490d45d082e5f3b3c65372ff8269f387d45 SHA-256: 1a24bc6ec51f48b1fc42fa69fbfb6a78564cbb7222208f400a9af547bfb84622
148 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a lure related to 'Canadian corporate tax return forms' and includes a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=canadian+corporate+tax+return+forms'. Additionally, a PDF link farm heuristic indicates the document is designed to host numerous external links. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL, suggesting the primary intent is to redirect users to a potentially malicious site for phishing or other malicious activities.

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • Callback phishing phone lure medium SE_CALLBACK_LURE
    Document asks the user to call a phone number in billing, refund, subscription, fraud, or security context — consistent with callback phishing or tech-support scam patterns
  • Urgency / deadline lure low SE_URGENCY_LURE
    Document contains urgency or deadline language ('account will be terminated', 'action required within 24 hours', etc.) — useful context, but low-signal without other findings
  • 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=canadian+corporate+tax+return+forms
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/aef5b7_7a4fcd54686b45c8b3aeeac145173309.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/866690_76bafb3cf7fa4a52bf3642642976173d.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/d017d5_ac73cd54ddb945b9a3e2629a48f0a3bb.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8225/8334/files/35104633977.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/8049/6792/files/cultivo_de_cebolla_china.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8706/0375/files/23473721144.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9892/2392/files/86853933737.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/895bef_73fdb6fcad25497f930723d82a8f7cd6.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0baf77_77e2d7a69f34437c985300bf3286c107.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_881cf17a5c4749aba71450fa4b908378.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_68780f2a0bd846f2930ccf35a77f2cf1.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5709/4559/files/kulilefo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5105/6295/files/17897763288.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4575/6821/files/12837952816.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0464/7210/2056/files/lafosumovagekopiper.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_off0000e22f.bin
00853b127dbce7f150c0f5859b6fd806acba92efe79f17ee22e3cead57a68386
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE22F 5244 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000f3f2.bin
078ccc94bb5b53868316c84140c24c343518e4a933f7b82b836aabd62be92cdc
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF3F2 10604 bytes