Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ba48cc704f7f12d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.5 KB Created: 2020-08-06 17:06:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: b963b91688986ce8e1513be8e923e166 SHA-1: e204ce73cc8b70541e047d90c09f391c4647c5fa SHA-256: 4ba48cc704f7f12d030f407c6623d05929a84abd79efb5f5e9e7af8704f00e7c
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, specifically pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=bordereau+cnss+pdf'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF SEO link farm, with numerous links to external PDFs hosted on domains like cdn.shopify.com. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains text fragments that, combined with the 'SE_INVOICE_LURE' heuristic, suggest a phishing attempt related to invoices or payments. The primary malicious IOC is the redirector URL, which likely leads to further malicious content.

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.
  • Fake invoice / payment lure low SE_INVOICE_LURE
    Document contains invoice or payment language paired with an action verb — useful context when combined with link, macro, or attachment indicators
  • 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=bordereau+cnss+pdf
    • http://dakesonu.safehand.org/uploads/1/3/2/6/132681947/larisi.pdf
    • http://files.bruceloeb.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131398366/1016339.pdf
    • http://files.stephencleobury.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130776611/2f0b0cfa5f.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/bijalikupuxamimidesedol.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/4456/9242/files/32764509668.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1543/0553/files/seligiwusefozu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0778/6657/files/geography_book_free_download_in_marathi.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/9231/8110/files/lilorudewefu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/4827/9970/files/99692663567.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/5271/8494/files/agatha_christie_hercule_poirot_s_christmas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1482/2811/files/12816044358.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8919/9268/files/bollywood_movies_calendar_2016.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8154/7417/files/tedebogurivuxafifoli.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/7761/5262/files/sinifeti.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_off0000604b.bin
4015e135fa4b1f3efcc3e7ecd70174cf752ebcb9737f88ed782b101fead10907
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x604B 5164 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000071ec.bin
a138b104e9adb79d0b6d585fa1941b884136226579c344639b939c9fc04ae021
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x71EC 9948 bytes