Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89c9119f3c5e86d0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

43.6 KB Created: 2020-08-29 16:13:02 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9190b0536befb0ece8db17d0198b1e86 SHA-1: c3c6b00d5999a78ad84e7560af4c15a7c2a5e19f SHA-256: 89c9119f3c5e86d0442696ec6394e83a3b84782e9ca8ec78a0eab39fa9455a29
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.me/wix?keyword=the+power+of+critical+thinking+5th+edition+pdf'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a link farm, embedding numerous external PDF links, with the first being 'https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5513/7447/files/59427106102.pdf'. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, also contains these URLs. The presence of a callback phishing lure heuristic suggests a social engineering attempt to solicit a phone call, likely related to the malicious link's destination.

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.me/wix?keyword=the+power+of+critical+thinking+5th+edition+pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5513/7447/files/59427106102.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/8982/8771/files/appium_for_mobile_testing.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/6142/5814/files/47195548674.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0451/8104/2839/files/bhagavath_geetha_malayalam_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6579/4965/files/building_components_and_materials.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/8080/9622/files/algae_and_bryophytes.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_3853946d01894217bf58c5ea9bbbd60f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_5acf3bd648bb4d3ebe36e1253e730c57.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/ea78e0_c401d45e061742ca972e07667e5ad04f.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_99ba59804ab64eb4abdcbe0392892358.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/4024/2840/files/70924981167.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0460/6820/3675/files/28008308300.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0437/0631/9001/files/carbohydrates_ppt_download.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/9570/3204/files/kamatibujuvufu.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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00006140.bin
fa10145731b372168f7488c5e16390b54f8c356f5b1ae01db20103fad45939aa
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6140 5468 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off000073e0.bin
5b39e9209f2f5823ace8c91dcdd9d22e48f67d4c3a8bd5da9fa9055417ac3ba4
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73E0 2576 bytes
font_02_sfnt_off00007d9f.bin
ec5efa60d40d5815f8cda770ea121048c5c51e897543c4833a191b79fd71e42a
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7D9F 10400 bytes