Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 26046428c84f4e3e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.3 KB Created: 2020-08-17 06:58:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 7f55549b5be05f0d1c0d224eb200d4c5 SHA-1: 6e2a0a7b674f0921e5ad3d7cb1bc936d5c85f61c SHA-256: 26046428c84f4e3e845930854245a7a8b5d86c30fb75b75649fd4e759acb2f2b
140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=apple+contact+us+form'. Additionally, a medium heuristic indicates a callback phishing lure, suggesting the document prompts users to call a phone number in a deceptive context. The document body also contains the same malicious URL. The presence of numerous links to PDF files hosted on Shopify, while many are benign, suggests a link farm tactic to potentially obscure the malicious redirector.

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.cc/pify?keyword=apple+contact+us+form
    • http://files.charlottewildlife.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695575/zuxen-jideripofemabe.pdf
    • http://files.cfstephenville.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131383541/6711674.pdf
    • http://wowimob.mtsoprisrecriders.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738850/8670220.pdf
    • http://nolob.ciarawiegers.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969352/5393529.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4839/4142/files/vms_peopleclick_com.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1586/3447/files/bienes_historie.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/3161/5909/files/tokiwo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0473/8206/files/6842842392.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0096/9896/files/story_elements_worksheets_2nd_grade.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8691/3431/files/92399869207.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/7431/3621/files/26720435203.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3622/9278/files/67413053822.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0188/8416/files/31133965185.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4501/1112/files/bolivipowelukigifor.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4267/6648/files/44659102865.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_off00005cfb.bin
94480efd5fef9b893ff0f1839deab50bf63b2dd426069f5466655c11419dc798
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5CFB 5152 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006e62.bin
f67c04d5af82f942e1301adf502bf140a1c0f2b98c2a7e55149e1fb08d685635
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6E62 10012 bytes