Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4ea57b582203739d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.0 KB Created: 2020-08-22 14:10:34 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 311644fd757d22365612ab28477437f2 SHA-1: 4d3d2cc725d1187441fc93211356de7c03ea5b55 SHA-256: 4ea57b582203739dfcb05043346a388760dd86fd4099726d6557b7243e364a35
150 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a mass external link farm, with many links pointing to Shopify domains, likely for SEO manipulation. A critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector at 'https://ttraff.ru/pify?keyword=bluetooth+app+sender+apk+for+pc'. The document body also contains this URL and mentions a 'download' lure, suggesting the intent is to trick users into clicking the malicious link to download potentially unwanted software or malware.

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.
  • QR-code redirect lure medium SE_QR_LURE
    Document instructs the user to scan a QR code with a phone — consistent with QR phishing, but also common in legitimate documents
  • 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.ru/pify?keyword=bluetooth+app+sender+apk+for+pc
    • http://files.elizabethhrand.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131406592/70f28bc48.pdf
    • http://files.hyderabad.bolgate.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130969381/kojexeruxafawawesa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/12909571685.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/6553/0785/files/sql_server_2008_r2_iso_file.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2631/7473/files/appeal_letter_for_employment_reconsideration.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0459/6229/7504/files/46860869392.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7417/5644/files/automobile_repair_and_maintenance.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/8198/2361/files/wixoneserofa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/3469/8147/files/67284783484.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/8059/7152/files/86945626060.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/4940/2016/files/dukefax.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0673/8079/files/22565326272.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_off00005b21.bin
43895491e9ba64bbd9a72fba6f46525933243a7cc9005ade562a4d5bf06b8527
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5B21 5356 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00006d4a.bin
d7f8a0f9c621bbdeafc242f51901030a8ab934bb8a044344b038d0c49ec9ee1c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6D4A 10052 bytes