Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1bf1997cd3a74b7f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

52.1 KB Created: 2020-08-22 09:59:38 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 2e4330e0a05f677a25d71a40130252d6 SHA-1: 84dd4d5b2be78b55eff10c17435bbc5a3dd8c38c SHA-256: 1bf1997cd3a74b7fee64a844acfb47beab00099dbee6f1849023b2afc133849d
142 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, suggesting a link farm or SEO poisoning attempt. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=canon+eos+70d+utility+mac', which is likely the primary malicious payload delivery mechanism. The document body, though heavily corrupted, contains fragments that appear to be search terms related to a Canon utility, reinforcing the lure. The presence of a callback phishing lure heuristic further supports a social engineering attack vector.

Heuristics 4

  • 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
  • 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=canon+eos+70d+utility+mac
    • http://files.claireawarden.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681316/jewule.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8166/2613/files/tupasilejivopawodiped.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0281/3849/files/42910034031.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/9151/5797/files/xatobuvas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/7846/6201/files/65013111931.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/9100/0472/files/transient_student_ucf.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/0733/6867/files/28101712454.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7006/2754/files/fukiwifetesiwesuxupaz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/8512/2984/files/badan_beruniform_uitm.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8631/5682/files/architecture_residential_drafting_and_design.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5820/8672/files/cambridge_certificate_in_advanced_english_4_teacher_s_book.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/1152/1187/files/islamicity_prayer_times.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5526/7496/files/54333411818.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_off000079f5.bin
80439b95e3214c594f5de05b076a7a9021e5f6f347c4ce84894952f521a5fadb
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x79F5 5220 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008bb2.bin
0744dcbe16473a741a2fab6338930e6c2c9c8ca90dcd46023ccdb68b24dccd68
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8BB2 13364 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off0000b5c6.bin
a542ec26cea93e049a2e27cd59b1347dd9bbdea13775fd7b822b3c2b3136116f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xB5C6 4324 bytes