Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4fe0b684af0a517c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.9 KB Created: 2020-08-18 16:01:40 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 49828557afb89972a939279301866edd SHA-1: eefbe61743eebd1caa839ec1b05b5b1fe90bb820 SHA-256: 4fe0b684af0a517ce4a01c8d83aadbef14c027c046cd6be96443607d8c2e7456
120 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, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=informatica+etl+interview+questions+and+answers'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains this URL and text related to interview questions, suggesting a lure. The PDF also exhibits characteristics of a link farm, with numerous external links, many hosted on cdn.shopify.com, likely to obscure the malicious redirector.

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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=informatica+etl+interview+questions+and+answers
    • http://files.smarthvacsupply.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130739570/4034038.pdf
    • http://files.shopmerricks.com/uploads/1/3/1/4/131484133/667396bf374b.pdf
    • http://kojusom.fleetvilleswingband.co.uk/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606457/kobaropabij-rakupatuve-suxogeveb-gononisetib.pdf
    • http://files.addvocate4coaching.com/uploads/1/3/1/8/131856567/turipulavetumasaza.pdf
    • http://wetexog.maryscreativespot.com/uploads/1/3/0/7/130738943/7654049.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4865/7318/files/mosasidiw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/6134/6466/files/56499918722.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4145/5256/files/80111770841.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/0780/1504/files/bsava_procedures_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9969/2958/files/paludeximegelule.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/7750/0056/files/bankers_algorithm_in_deadlock.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8000/0423/files/mijixosunoreden.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/0876/0735/files/wiley_statistical_analysis_with_excel_for_dummies.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/5176/0281/files/surface_active_ethylene_oxide_adducts.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8379/2545/files/dell_latitude_e6440_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5581/6599/files/givenejisib.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8817/4497/files/25621657411.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_off00011871.bin
8dbec0e22410dd5b526d38d9225915ed3cbc2db82816f492d3345ef350ddf34c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11871 5380 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00012aad.bin
a56478f94351bd9147bc8020683bf87ba2d41fc4b8ecbdc80b188720475236fa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12AAD 12020 bytes