Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a54a2b93a68721b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

50.6 KB Created: 2020-08-25 15:52:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: 9b47ac8189e521cbc725da560c21bde2 SHA-1: 0d38ee7bfb8e1cb5125622de0cdb763474331eb1 SHA-256: a54a2b93a68721b3aea72ee9f72613dbfd9dcff729acadfd6fea7f53275b697e
140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a lure related to a 'discrepancy report format' and embeds multiple links. One critical heuristic indicates a malicious redirector link to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=discrepancy+report+format', which is a primary indicator of malicious intent. The document body, though heavily corrupted, contains this URL and other PDF links hosted on Shopify, suggesting a link farm or redirection strategy. The presence of a callback lure heuristic further supports a phishing or scam attempt.

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=discrepancy+report+format
    • http://kagaje.tourdetech.net/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606490/3805399.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0440/7066/6392/files/33803074426.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/4194/5760/files/61805561649.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/1096/5147/files/rerod.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6352/5026/files/sijofelizovopuxoxuzezexu.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8640/5022/files/46140448025.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/jokopewizemaw.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/5597/2506/files/sazagutawenaletopulizom.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/8589/7627/files/vk_publications_accountancy_class_12_solutions.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/2191/0687/files/kuxafetamudugikapoporiwal.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/1016/9759/files/weslo_cadence_g_5._9_treadmill_manual.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/9775/9652/files/tiwojixipasapiz.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/9381/9541/files/microsoft_sql_server_developer.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_off0000865e.bin
96330fd116775d9cd771754a36d5a1f3242a1fd007337ccc45081d9d75c8a670
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x865E 5232 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off00009818.bin
7f89bea2a1995e4e4deab2f7b58a37551a527c4eaab315166e958eaf65e1df9c
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x9818 11088 bytes