Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2e4a07e67ec29300…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.4 KB Created: 2020-08-05 04:50:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 29c142025d5212864c7fd2639bfcb926 SHA-1: 7cdb7f2ece7490aba0b7d839e962cbe8146a4ce6 SHA-256: 2e4a07e67ec29300a22f0c95b8d135599cbe3d6413322215dcfaf34dc6636bb8
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a large number of embedded links, many of which point to a link farm hosted on Shopify. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=metahuman+by+deepak+chopra+pdf'. This suggests the document is designed to direct users to potentially malicious websites, likely for phishing or malware distribution. The presence of urgency lures further supports this malicious intent.

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.
  • 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.cc/pify?keyword=metahuman+by+deepak+chopra+pdf
    • http://files.pentictonadventurers.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681758/fenok.pdf
    • http://files.tunisian-tile-stone.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775373/ketukutov.pdf
    • http://files.johannesburgwildlifevet.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131453194/kanowolopapal.pdf
    • http://files.puzzle-pieces.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131438059/9171715.pdf
    • http://files.tunisian-tile-stone.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130775373/ket
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8457/1031/files/simcity_4_torrent.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5420/2018/files/43966148505.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5207/2086/files/95281131157.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1092/3423/files/53572710144.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0441/4350/9656/files/rawezefudutiduwuvos.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/5847/1846/files/gozek.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1786/1277/files/jimukolapafajejupudozeni.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5467/8687/files/nigegafikofegidi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9147/7159/files/zigejesonulux.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0621/4819/files/zasipodezuboroduwafelene.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/41557636134.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/8711/6965/files/10542380718.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3707/2280/files/jogon.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/4046/4281/files/troy_bilt_lawn_mower_won_t_start.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_off00007ccc.bin
81d88c8f4407d2a89d3bacbc2d99c004dbc48b508b48f7bb8f03b16b38126c77
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7CCC 5496 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008f65.bin
0b4a17362b7de6a0627474916e9482939611092a0d78531ca4cb7ccd2a516930
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8F65 10868 bytes