Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 499633440710756e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

46.0 KB Created: 2020-08-31 16:55:59 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 284eced643ab5445aa9b05c8ecba8f02 SHA-1: ac9be487f84bc8bad61b2b43a6baf057c4be046e SHA-256: 499633440710756ef0b79c8117572c7ada329c1fb009f3d61dd9443d12701894
170 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF document contains a high number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, which is characteristic of a link farm used to boost SEO for malicious sites. One critical heuristic identified a PDF link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.ru/wix?keyword=job+offer+letter+example+pdf'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and appears to be a lure for a job offer, aligning with the 'advance-fee scam' heuristic. The primary attack pattern involves tricking the user into clicking the malicious redirector URL.

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.
  • Advance-fee lottery/parcel scam lure high SE_ADVANCE_FEE_SCAM_LURE
    Document contains lottery/beneficiary or prize language together with large-value draft/funds wording and parcel/courier delivery requirements. This is a classic advance-fee fraud document shape.
  • 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.ru/wix?keyword=job+offer+letter+example+pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/4291/2926/files/4711737033.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/4696/8218/files/53462861912.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/7714/7547/files/108229053.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_b5cfaea357d74801a4863968279feb0a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5d7761434a5449a08151a7cdeeb9cc05.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_8c369762975a41ddad84b8131cc23851.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5bee09a4693b4a918a656957d88435fe.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9354/8444/files/all_sorting_algorithms_in_java.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/3123/8568/files/rupurizuxomoje.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9299/1399/files/satosuvotigokidakafada.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/7129/7943/files/hemostasis_and_blood_coagulation.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5417/8216/files/44531733847.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_off000075f0.bin
7b6f31092ff5a0f3893f4706173e6286904c54f3590b35b11b3c0371532c9438
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x75F0 5204 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00008790.bin
8b0c78a18afd76d579c774e6f0a661954397e12bb5d0fa8e1988079a6bfe278b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8790 10588 bytes