Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cad35b103b48e7e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.9 KB Created: 2020-08-19 01:15:36 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: e4d0f80e48ca67cfec9a785a246493ee SHA-1: f48ef278c016ebcf0d7d85c13cc990d06cbfb74d SHA-256: cad35b103b48e7e68049b95e2d7b819888a51d2189fd47894cf7db273e95fd8e
162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF contains a critical heuristic firing for a malicious redirector link pointing to 'https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=zarchiver+pro+apk+free'. Additionally, it exhibits a PDF SEO link farm pattern with numerous links to Shopify-hosted PDFs. The presence of the 'SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE' heuristic indicates the document likely instructs the user to open a password-protected archive, a common tactic to bypass security filters. The document body contains obfuscated text but includes the same malicious URL and benign-looking PDF links, reinforcing the lure.

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.
  • Password-protected archive handoff high SE_PASSWORD_ARCHIVE_LURE
    Document gives password instructions for an archive or attachment — often used to keep payloads encrypted until after gateway scanning
  • 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=zarchiver+pro+apk+free
    • http://files.seedssown.org/uploads/1/3/1/6/131637362/9045030.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/7749/3146/files/75240690117.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/6453/9798/files/fupoxofekunisokobixonir.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/0506/6907/files/66814891150.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7974/6201/files/vidmate_hd_video_music_er_apk.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7312/7079/files/33791862348.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0436/2380/9187/files/crazy_frog_piano_sheet_music.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/7678/0192/files/13255509213.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/2729/1547/files/bhairavar_kavasam_lyrics_in_tamil.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/tugomedimugatusigoxafif.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/5970/7037/files/piriformis_muscle_stretches_while_pregnant.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3452/5347/files/63639886581.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/0118/4417/files/matlab_vs_python.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/6656/4503/files/korean_characters_chart.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_off00005f46.bin
2b4f2cf5a0c110b320f2b5fbe3c1e6c0c8473e4a1a51f5a8ce22974ec7cddf3f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5F46 4976 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000703a.bin
2a09a2da468d434003f0203e221e4640b560c7b9369d784fdcd9ae86c334cb1b
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x703A 10192 bytes