Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46b18963b3400609…

MALICIOUS

PDF

41.3 KB Created: 2020-09-01 05:05:10 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 368cf7a321bb5a63768d23f4d3f11856 SHA-1: 4284122939a26d1e4548161796edef993b52cc03 SHA-256: 46b18963b340060991aafa75b8be58b8c809e5ab20c9566e81a5b31c864ccf31
148 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a link farm and a specific malicious redirector URL, indicating a phishing or scam attempt. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the malicious URL and references to a 'content planning spreadsheet' to lure the user. The presence of a call-to-action phrase and a phone number lure further supports a phishing or scam pretext.

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
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • 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.link/pify?keyword=content+planning+spreadsheet
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8787/1646/files/90156874844.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5040/1945/files/60267673564.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1565/0980/files/bibemuruvoxizawem.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0349/5071/files/teput.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5987/9841/files/pikesafasajudepixevigifa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0450/4502/2870/files/galvus_contem_metformina.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2358/8773/files/54226698890.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/4972/2790/files/financial_services_mediation_answer_book.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/6846fe_3db43bb9ac7b4cce8220b0c1c4909241.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/10b11f_db192d28e76846ff8318ff79acd1df1a.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_off00006530.bin
fcc0939363e9c391ec492257ea7d79b879518e6171cb85520df42bc5c291081e
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6530 5124 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000768d.bin
93a13ca0fa26162f6716a869ad9a22b7de6a13f01361eff5402683468ab78632
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x768D 10060 bytes