Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7b51f181effae267…

MALICIOUS

PDF

35.6 KB Created: 2020-08-13 03:24:54 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9b2595c3453a4d0b3b9a688b22bf772f SHA-1: 59a5b52e6f4ceaff079274dc5270ba79035e843d SHA-256: 7b51f181effae26763607de5d2bb4b8d69880ebf52164fd048f859ec326d24c0
140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.001 User Execution: Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link, pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=forensic+anthropology+current+methods+and+practice+pdf+download'. This URL is likely used to redirect users to a malicious site. Additionally, the PDF exhibits a link farm pattern, with numerous links to external PDFs, many hosted on Shopify. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains the same redirector URL, reinforcing its malicious intent. The presence of a callback lure heuristic suggests a potential for social engineering to further compromise the user.

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.
  • 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
  • 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=forensic+anthropology+current+methods+and+practice+pdf+download
    • http://files.soulastro.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606901/6276169.pdf
    • http://vuladerid.seahavenhold.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164312/vozojodopaxevix_rirudebabo_xufiguj.pdf
    • http://files.operabarcarola.com/uploads/1/3/0/9/130970015/c6df91adc912.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/0918/7750/files/28021912896.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/3861/3415/files/8885948919.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/4580/6503/files/45_55_reddit.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/3549/0461/files/xasufasogubikowovibipas.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6080/4249/files/54883900011.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/0749/2775/files/76094536524.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5106/5242/files/xazarovuterodivalerid.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6019/1641/files/jijuj.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6748/7894/files/xotus.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/0667/1517/files/61432004922.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/0391/7974/files/contacto_carl_sagan_libro.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0447/3192/4629/files/autocad_2015_for_dummies.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/3624/5142/files/bitaso.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5546/4104/files/33268920482.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_off00004bf0.bin
590e76a952a874ebc16b31d163a3e3721d50acdef1df6592c3c6712f633a6d34
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x4BF0 5716 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00005f4f.bin
8d690b72f2327622cb9ac50c7cc4b3de7e412a0788aac55090d198d7fb2f0c7a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F4F 9888 bytes