Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f0b6eac07160c18…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.2 KB Created: 2020-08-03 05:48:31 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 73eebd634834828d5a68595164f17678 SHA-1: 76894de98c275650af91cd0f5c704064586d1f09 SHA-256: 1f0b6eac07160c186b122d56a07c12a7800c35f01b1ff0929431ea644698eafe
120 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=mr+heater+troubleshooting'. This URL is likely part of a phishing or scam campaign, attempting to trick users into clicking through by providing seemingly relevant keywords. The document also contains a PDF link farm heuristic, indicating it's designed to host numerous links, likely for SEO manipulation or to distribute further malicious content. The presence of multiple Shopify URLs, some confirmed benign and others unknown, suggests an attempt to blend in with legitimate content while directing users to malicious infrastructure.

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.cc/pify?keyword=mr+heater+troubleshooting
    • http://files.fresnonutritionsolutions.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132683111/9806049.pdf
    • http://files.dirfloortimecoalition.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874474/1319747.pdf
    • http://dijema.pierrefinearts.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483083/5599105.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0058/5636/files/lutuvetimuposikulanu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9179/6902/files/siwesopojilomojo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7899/1520/files/14816034696.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8407/9523/files/79420816581.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0319/0181/files/91373429562.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8523/3304/files/maparolituganesubesilarop.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7772/9432/files/8944907804.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/7491/8302/files/49212978913.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3195/2536/files/2000_toyota_camry_repair_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1541/2632/files/67493574188.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9775/9643/files/desijedesefili.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/1682/0648/files/dictonary_english_khmer.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_off00005e26.bin
dcd3a6114d10981549bb1d219194711c455ef59657c93f8b8e31f5c99015f0cf
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E26 5092 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006f74.bin
b98adb6111d6d9dd6229e53f764bc531e82caa1c80788b9e72861392399dcb98
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F74 9572 bytes