Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a388f66c8c9a6009…

MALICIOUS

PDF

44.9 KB Created: 2020-08-31 22:05:09 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 3e2e121724b277274b453569c8d7b9b6 SHA-1: de2526cca6611e605f56c277e099803eadfde8f1 SHA-256: a388f66c8c9a60096cb9e3189ca5b6bdeaa13488e3afeb1b745204cba1b0932e
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/wix?keyword=scotsman+guide+top+originators+2017'. Additionally, it exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded URLs, including one to a Shopify domain. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains references to the malicious URL and other PDF links. The presence of a callback lure heuristic suggests a potential phishing or scam attempt, aiming to trick the user into interacting further.

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/wix?keyword=scotsman+guide+top+originators+2017
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/9494/0575/files/97769912310.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/1464/4127/files/mbbs_1st_year_all_books.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/3461/4688/files/donagapogijifawadixalu.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/0d2908_b8117e18193041f0b84f5cea23931205.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/e3ed1f_29ccaaff9e1d45e093ddb2a9a1168e0a.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/33a16d_051772f176bf486ca7ed206c7a13f595.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/cfa91a_b1651132855f4470bd7c1495fe7687a9.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_7d7af03a04d145f7a49d1f0b9cdc5789.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_6eb543a0a3fe47a0903e4561e1c80e64.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/5ed537_8de6dccbe9ea4156af9758e9399d95db.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_1fdd3a5c605f4d6ab4e58f6f2fa293d4.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/2f07a1_e2ad95a2a8264d28a571bfbfdce64ab3.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/1df9ea_59b61a229ea94765bcd2562af0c8dd29.pdf
    • https://static.usrfiles.com/ugd/b8c837_425f876c42304fc58deadb6123b02bf4.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_off00006a18.bin
61197f3d5763bb96c67160b6530749833d6d7a5e682a0b9a9c40c61af31825f1
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6A18 5872 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00007e02.bin
046006ad2d08ba15b8050d417d75595df2c8859c1ac3eaca76839d3533cd77a9
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x7E02 11596 bytes